Following a lawsuit filed by Motorola against the Apple company, those from Cupertino were forced to interrupt the iCloud Push Mail service for more than a year, but only in Germany. Today Apple confirmed restoration of its services in the respective European country, but in order to do so it had to deposit a bond worth 132 million dollars to a court in Germany.
After the Federal Patent Court's preliminary ruling, Apple filed with the Karlsruhe-based appeals court a motion to stay enforcement against Google's will. In early September, the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court granted it. I published my own (obviously unofficial) English translation of the order. The order revealed that Apple had to post a 100 million euro ($132 million) bond to get the injunction actually lifted. The paperwork for all of this apparently took a few weeks and presumably Apple's technical staff conducted some internal tests before finally reactivating the push notification feature for end users — which it did today.
The news is gratifying for Germans who used emails made through the iCloud system or Yahoo! , they being the only ones affected by the ban.
