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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, December 21 2012 @ 05:57 PM EST |
Agreed. Very similar to the FTC Google investigation.
Note the FTC has postponed any decision until next year.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 22 2012 @ 02:37 PM EST |
There was
a post about this under the last story. I
tried to dig out what was going on, and it seems that it comes from an off topic
question from the floor at about 35 minutes in this EC Press
Conference which was principally what to do with the Spanish banking
sector. Reuters picked it up and ran it as a story. Reuters used to be the
Gold Standard in international press
reportage, but since the internet their
quality seem to have slipped. There was enough open-endedness and other
background material there for the US tech press to run amok. The investigation
has
been going on, depending which papers you read since
November 2011 , or February 2012 . Now
Samsung
has been invited to state
its case . That this invitation is in formal EU-speak described as a
statement of
objections has apparently confused some of those on the
litigation-happy west Atlantic shore. AFAICT (and someone with more technical
knowledge please explain) the proceedings thus far are
like a complaint to the
ITC in the US. We are at the stage where the defendant, Samsung, has been asked
to file its brief. There will probably be no public hearings. Sanctions or
penalties may or may
not be held against the defendant. This may be a simple
request for behaviour modification. Perhaps we have been too enured to the
non-compliance of one particular defendant, we know expect all
multinationals
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