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Samsung Will Be Charged For Patent Lawsuits Against Apple In EU

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.

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Samsung Drops Patent-Infringement Lawsuits Against Apple In Europe

Samsung Drops Patent-Infringement Lawsuits Against Apple In Europe

Korean electronics giant Samsung has today announced that it will drop its patent-infringement lawsuits against Apple in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The announcement comes just hours after Apple was denied its request to have 26 Samsung devices banned in the United States — though the two cases are unrelated.Samsung Drops Patent-Infringement Lawsuits Against Apple In Europe

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