Samsung Offers to Settle EU Antitrust Probe on Patents
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Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest maker of smartphones, offered to settle a European Union probe into whether it tried to use mobile-phone patents to hinder competition from Apple Inc.
“After lengthy discussions, Samsung has sent us a set of commitments seeking to address our concerns,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said today in a speech in New York. “We will formally market test these proposed commitments with other market participants in the coming weeks.”