Germany temporarily bans ASUS & Acer from selling PCs and notebooks

If you are in Germany and want to buy laptops or PCs from official Acer and ASUS websites, sadly you can’t do that right now. Wondering why? Well, ASUS and Acer have been ordered to temporarily ban direct PC and notebook sales in Germany after a Munich court ruled in favor of Nokia in a patent dispute related to the H.265 or HEVC video standard. Court ruling halts Acer and ASUS direct sales in Germany The ruling reportedly concluded that both manufacturers infringed standard-essential patents held by Nokia and were not willing to license them under FRAND terms. As a