“Samsung Electronics Co. was sent an antitrust complaint from the European Union for allegedly abusing its dominant market position in legal disputes with Apple Inc.,” Aoife White and Erik Larson report for Bloomberg News.
“Samsung’s use of court injunctions seeking to block Apple’s products in relation to so-called standard-essential patents violates antitrust rules in the 27-nation bloc, the European Commission said today in an e-mailed statement,” White and Larson report. “Samsung said earlier this week it would drop such actions in Europe. Intellectual property rights ‘should not be misused when they are essential to implement industry standards, which bring huge benefits to businesses and consumers alike,’ EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in the statement.”
White and Larson report, “Samsung failed to deflect the EU complaint when it announced on Dec. 18 it plans to withdraw injunctions in Europe that seek to block sales of Apple products. Almunia said yesterday that such a move wasn’t enough to prevent regulators from sending a so-called statement of objections to the company, a formal charge sheet that may precede antitrust fines of as much as 10 percent of yearly sales.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
Kick arse!!
Could it be that Europe now gets Apple and its unique products and company ethos?
Do you use that potty mouth in your mother’s presence? Take your immature stature to somewhere they carebear about it.
Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares!
“Potty Mouth”? What post in this thread uses foul language?
Sorry to have to point it out shinola but your post has nothing to do with my comment. Perhaps you clicked the wrong ‘reply’ link.
yea.. welcome to the reaction most of us get when you go all kindergarten cop on us for using a grown up word.
i’m glad you fell for it idiot. Not that I’m even remotely surprised.. hahaLOLZ. That’s how intelligent adults feel when you chime in with your intellectually bankrupt pontifications about their choice of language. Now you know (:
When you try to make a point, it is more effective if you have one and are accurate. I know you tried your best but as usual, you fall short again. When logic fails you, you can always fall back on name calling and foul language.
Can we import some of their no-nonsense judges and officials with common sense to the U.S. In return, they can have all the Koh’s and other non-committal judges they can handle!
This phrase is made the way as if EU complains about the Samsung’s anticompetitive behaviour to Samsung itself. Bloomberg has professional journalism deficiency.
Samsung: Do you hear the sizzle? 😀
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of charlatans.
Samsung can go suck pond water. I plan on never buying any of their products if I have my say so.
This is just fantastic news.
Samsung in its desperate attempt to win the case against Apple uses every dirty tactics and juvenile tantrums in its arsenal, hoping that something might stick on the wall.
Samsung & Google: Your pants are on fire, but yet you keep your heads in the clouds…denial is bliss.