Brussels, 31/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - On 31 January, the European Commission opened a formal investigation to assess whether South Korea's Samsung Electronics has abusively, and in contravention of a commitment it gave to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules. The proceedings are the next step in the battle between Samsung and...