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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10759

9 January 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Samsung injunctions against Apple break EU rules

Brussels, 08/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 21 December 2012, the European Commission sent Samsung a statement of objections to the effect that Samsung's seeking of injunctions against Apple in various member states on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents ("SEPs") amounts to an abuse of a dominant position prohibited by EU antitrust rules. While recourse to injunctions is a possible remedy for patent infringements, such conduct may be abusive where SEPs are concerned and...