Motorola Mobility Faces EU Curbs in Patent Clash With Apple
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Motorola Mobility, which Google Inc. is selling to Lenovo Group Ltd., faces European Union curbs on its legal efforts to thwart Apple Inc. as antitrust regulators seek to boost competition for smartphones and tablets.
The company will get a “prohibition decision” for abusing key mobile-phone patents in its battle with the iPhone maker, Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s competition commissioner, told reporters today in London. While such rulings typically include an order to modify behavior, Almunia didn’t specify whether the Google unit would face fines.