Brussels: Samsung Electronics is under formal investigation by the European Commission (EC) over alleged business abuses.
The European Commission said it will investigate whether the group went too far last year when it sought injunctions against competitors in various EU national courts, alleging infringements of Samsung’s patent rights.
“The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has abusively, and in contravention of a commitment it gave to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules,” it said.
“The Commission will examine whether such behaviour amounts to an abuse of a dominant position prohibited by Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU),” it added.
Samsung has spent a lot of last year arguing with Apple in European courts over patents. We have asked it to comment on this news from the EC.
Meanwhile, a German court decided Tuesday to ban the sale of two models of Samsung’s Galaxy tablet, ruling that they were too similar to Apple’s iPad.
The Galaxy 10. and 8.9 models were barred from the Germany market by a court in Duesseldorf.
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