The European Commission is formally started two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility. The company would be unlawful restrictions to impose on competitive firms who want to access its mobile-patentencatalogus.
According to the European Commission, the patents, which among other things relate to 2g, 3g, wi – fi and video compression technology, essential for the cellular market and Motorola Mobile earlier promises breached that competitors under reasonable terms and conditions full access to the patentencatalogus. The European data protection supervisor suspects that the attitude of Motorola Mobile, which Google has acquired, disturb the market works.
The EC has decided to investigate whether Motorola’s abuse of his position and therefore European anti-trust violation. In addition, the supervisor in a second study, view or company unreasonable terms in its licenses.
Rise to the antitrust investigations are complaints from Apple and Microsoft. According to Microsoft, requires Motorola Mobile unreasonably high prices for some essential patents, while Motorola must adhere to the frand guidelines.
The European Union has Motorola Mobile already been warned to take extra care on the action to be taken by the company. Nevertheless, it gave the EU the green light for the takeover of Motorola by the search giant. Google paid $ 12.5 billion for the acquisition.