Samsung Will Be Charged For Patent Lawsuits Against Apple In EU

(6:08 am PDT, Dec 20th 2012)

Samsung Will Be Charged For Patent Lawsuits Against Apple In EU

The European Commission’s Vice President for Competition Policy, Joaquín Almunia, has confirmed that it will charge Samsung  ”very soon” in an antitrust patent case after the Korean electronics giant broke competition rules by filing patent-infringement lawsuits against Apple. Samsung has been under investigation since January for a possible breach of antitrust rules, and earlier this week, it dropped all of its injunction requests against Apple in Europe.

“We will issue a statement of objections very soon,” Almunia told Reuters. This will inform Samsung of the charges raised against it, and it will provide the Galaxy Tab maker with the chance to argue against them or request a hearing.

On Tuesday, Samsung announced out of the blue that it would be dropping all of its injunctions requests against Apple in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The company insisted its decision was to protect “consumer choice,” but many had suspected that it had other motives — such as trying to avoid the EU’s antitrust case.

This isn’t the end of litigation between Apple and Samsung, however. In addition to these cases in Europe, there are legal battles still ongoing in the United States. Back in August, another case saw Apple awarded $1.05 billion in damages after a jury found Samsung guilty of infringing Apple patents.

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  • http://twitter.com/craftytony Anthony Velazquez

    Maybe after this they will finally start innovating instead of copying…

    • the Ugly Truth

      nah…it is not in their DNA

      • The__Truth__Hurts

        Funny, since Without Samsung, The iPhone, iPad and about countless other Apple products would have never “existed”.

        • PMB01

          Not even remotely true.

        • the Ugly Truth

          Take your meds lil brother….

          Without Apple; Samsuck would have no one to cheat from!

          I know you’d side with them; cheat much at school?

  • http://twitter.com/chuckmcginley Chuck McGinley

    Just settle this and have Samsung print apologies in all major newspapers across the EU in 26 point Arial. ;-)

    • the Ugly Truth

      LMAO..that would be epic…

  • http://www.facebook.com/ellyn.n.sims Ellyn IsfeelingThelove

    Samsung has been a copycat artist for years. Apple is just the latest. Anyone remember the Blackjack? It was a straight up rip off from Blackberry. Only a partial difference in the name. I think Samsung copies products, tries to confuse the non tech people who buy phones (i.e. the people who don’t read these blogs) and they’ve done a good job.

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Killian BellKillian Bell is a freelance writer based in the UK. He has an interest in all things tech and also writes for TechnoBuffalo. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell, or through his website.

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