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Nokia blocks Lenovo from selling any laptops, PCs or tablets in Germany
- pjmlp 6y agoGiven how dependenent on Thinkpads the whole enterprise industry is over here, this is going to look interesting. On the other hand, maybe we get to sell overpriced second hand Thinkpads on the black market now. :)
- martin8412 6y agoIt sounds mostly like it's a patent infringement on the website, not the actual products. The article is not exactly great, so it's not clear if they can't just sell laptops over the phone?
- throwaway4good 6y agoWouldn't this apply to just about any PC producer? Including Apple ...
- Westernis 6y agoThe article in english on notebookcheck is grossly incomplete. The problem is the licence for h.264 hardware implementation in gpus. in german: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Verkaufsstopp-fuer-Lenovo-Produkte-in-Deutschland-Nokia-erwirkt-einstweilige-Verfuegung.498876.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.com/Verkaufsstopp-fuer-Lenovo-Prod... https://www.heise.de/news/Patentstreit-mit-Nokia-Lenovo-stoppt-Verkauf-in-Deutschland-4935904.html https://www.heise.de/news/Patentstreit-mit-Nokia-Lenovo-stop...
- rurban 6y agoWhich gpu's exactly? nvidia, amdgpu, intel? I suppose nvidia only, so ryzens would be clear.