Motorola Mobility Risks Complaint Amid Race for Pact
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As Google Inc.’s antitrust clash over search-engine fair-play nears a possible settlement, its Motorola Mobility Holdings unit is embroiled in a separate European Union probe into its control of key patents in gadgets from Apple Inc. iPads to Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox console.
Motorola Mobility, which Google bought last year for $12.4 billion, is suspected by the EU’s antitrust regulator of blocking competition by hampering rivals’ use of its essential technology patents. It faces a possible formal complaint from the European Commission as a result of the probe, according to three people who asked not to be named because the process is private.