The European Union imposed a temporary ban on the importation of PS3 in Europe

The ban came into effect because of LG's patent lawsuit filed against Sony. The judges of the Hague court decided to suspend the importation of game consoles in Europe during the consideration of the claim. The ban will be valid for at least 10 days from the day this ban comes into force. By the way, about hundreds of thousands of PS3 are delivered to Europe every week, and now all this number of game consoles will be arrested at customs. Most likely, the arrest will last more than 10 days, since patent claims are usually not considered a week or two.

LG filed a lawsuit against Sony, believing that the technology of playing Blu-Ray discs, which is used in the corporation's game consoles, violates several patents belonging to LG. Currently, the leadership of LG is going to block the supply of consoles in other regions, not only in European countries. Analysts believe that the patent war between Sony and LG may be delayed, and the plaintiff in this case may get problems in the US, since Sony has the ability to block the supply of LG mobile devices to the US market.
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Experts believe that this court ruling could make PS3 a deficit, since the prefixes in stock are barely enough for a couple of weeks of sales. After that, consoles can jump in price, and in most of the stores they simply disappear from the shelves.

Sony representatives have so far refused to comment, because the corporation does not yet have enough information on this issue. Do not go to contact and representatives of LG, who also remain silent with respect to this trial. Sony is suffering major losses due to blocking PS3 shipments to Europe, and most likely, these losses will only grow if the case is not settled in the next few days. And this is unlikely, as mentioned above, patent wars are not conducted for a couple of days. Now confiscated consignment consignment is in the customs warehouses of Holland.

At the moment, already sold 3 million of these gaming consoles, from the date of commencement of sales in March 2007.

Via Guardian