EU, Spotlight for Motorola patent dispute with Apple - The Republic

The European Antitrust suspect the company controlled by Google of “abusing dominant position” in lawsuits against Cupertino. For now, no official step, you are still in the investigative phase

BRUSSELS – The European Antitrust puts the spotlight on Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of U.S. giant Google that already has several ongoing disputes with the EU: according to the EU executive, the company could made an abuse of dominant position on the market of key patents in the field of mobile telephony. In the focus lock requests made by motorola in front of the German judiciary, on the marketing of certain Apple devices. Motorola, in this case, he tried to assert “injunction” against Apple in Germany, as a remedy for a possible violation of patent rights. A practice can but for Brussels in this case can not be applied because Apple was willing to enter into a license agreement.

The decision of the Committee is still at a preliminary stage, it is an “objection” to the company formalized and is not yet a real investigation for breach of EC antitrust rules. Judicial disputes similar to those for which the intervention of Motorola Mobility, had been made at the time also by Microsoft. A spokesman for the Commission stated that they are still testing before they decide whether or not to proceed as with the subsidiary of Google.

Finally, the Commission stated that this story has no ties with other disputes instituted against Google. In fact, most of the events under investigation dates back to before that Motorola Mobility

taken over by Google, said the spokesman.