Court's Apple injunction normal procedure

ON MONDAY, a court in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, imposed a preliminary injunction ordering four subsidiaries of Apple Inc in China to immediately cease importing, selling or preselling certain kinds of iPhones because they violated two Qualcomm patents. Lin Wei, a lawyer, commented on Beijing News:

The ban does not mean the court has made its final ruling about the case yet. The ban is a provisional one while the case is being heard.

Some overseas media outlets reported that Apple "appealed" against the ban, which is inaccurate because according to the law neither party has the right to "appeal" against a provisional ban. Although they have one chance of requiring the court to "reconsider".