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Samsung in Talks to Settle EU Antitrust Charges Linked to Lawsuits Against Apple
Reuters reports that Samsung is in preliminary talks with European Union regulators in order to settle antitrust charges stemming from the company's use of standards-essential patents in litigation against Apple. Samsung could have faced fines of up to $17.3 billion, but any settlement would apparently result in no fine and no admission of wrongdoing.
Samsung had dropped its lawsuits against Apple back in December "in the interest of protecting consumer choice", although it was clear that the European Commission was pressuring Samsung over its use of the patents in court.
Google's Motorola Mobility unit has come under similar scrutiny from European regulators over its use of standards-essential patents in lawsuits against Apple.
In other Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit news, Bloomberg reports that Apple has lost its appeal in a Japanese case in which it claimed that Samsung infringed upon a patent related to synchronizing music and video data with servers. Samsung had prevailed in an initial trial back in August.
"Samsung has been involved in settlement discussions for several months now. Samsung wants to settle," said one of the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.Samsung has come under criticism for using standards-essential patents in litigation, as such patents are required to be licensed under reasonable terms in order to allow competitors to offer products supporting industry standards. Many regulators and observers believe that such patents should not be used to pursue injunctions preventing competitors from selling their products, even while licensing agreements have not yet been reached.
The sources said it was still too early to say if the discussions would result in a settlement.
Samsung had dropped its lawsuits against Apple back in December "in the interest of protecting consumer choice", although it was clear that the European Commission was pressuring Samsung over its use of the patents in court.
Google's Motorola Mobility unit has come under similar scrutiny from European regulators over its use of standards-essential patents in lawsuits against Apple.
In other Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit news, Bloomberg reports that Apple has lost its appeal in a Japanese case in which it claimed that Samsung infringed upon a patent related to synchronizing music and video data with servers. Samsung had prevailed in an initial trial back in August.
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83 months ago
Let the Samsung-bashing begin in 3... 2... 1...
Hey at least it will balance out the Apple bashing. :D
83 months ago
It is just fair to bash non-Apples in this forum. It is purely phanboyism to come in here and just to annoy the Apple fans relentlessly / excessively / obsessively at their home forum. :D
83 months ago
Messing with standards-essential patents is a real no-no. A $17 billion potential fine. Wow. :eek:
83 months ago
Samsung wants to settle? Shocking.
:rolleyes:
I remember reading something a long time back from Samsung which saisd "we will never settle"...
83 months ago
Let the comedy ensue!
And fwiw lots of people called it, but the samshills were out in force and said it wasn't standard essential abuse.
And fwiw lots of people called it, but the samshills were out in force and said it wasn't standard essential abuse.
83 months ago
Samsung is in preliminary talks with European Union regulators in order to settle antitrust charges stemming from the company's use of standards-essential patents in litigation against Apple. Samsung could have faced fines of up to $17.3 billion
If I was EU and had unilateral jurisdiction to issue fines in the tens of billions of Euros, I wouldn't even talk about settling. I would issue the fines and see what behavior changes and consider maybe moderating half of them later. What would the EU even do with a 10 billion Euro fine anyway? Not give it back to harmed vendors as it should be of course!Rocketman
82 months ago
are you serious?
Inspiration? Yes
Copy?, nop.
And if you want to play the game, we can start to look at those features made before Android or WP.
The "x has copied y" is just a child's game
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