EU Commission has sent Samsung a ‘Statement of Objections’ wherein their preliminary view is that Samsung abused its position of owning standard-essential 3G UMTS patents (SEPs) and trying to gain an injunction against Apple products. The Commission says Samsung was wrong on their part because they gave a commitment to license those patents on FRAND […]
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EU Commission opens an Antitrust investigation against Samsung
UPDATE: Samsung says they’re confident of coming clean in the EU investigation. Via Samsung has an ongoing tussle with Apple but they’ll now have to deal with the European Commission as well as they’ve opened a formal investigation against them. The EU Commission will assess whether Samsung has abused its position and breached EU […]
Samsung gets fined by EU for chip price fixing
Samsung and nine other memory chip makers have been fined by EU commission over price fixing of the memory chips. A total of 331 million euros fine was levied with Samsung bearing the biggest penalty of 145.73 million euros. The cartel was in existence from 1 July 1998 to 15 June 2002 where the […]