Samsung may be seriously punished for patent trolling Apple

If the US patent trolling from Samsung More companies working, The Europeans seem to have this behavior Koreans rather tired.

Six months ago, the European Union launched an investigation, focused on identifying the degree of legality of using Samsung's own patent portfolio. The fact is that after trying to ban Koreans in the iPhone and iPad sales Europe, the Europeans decided to pay close attention to Samsung patent policy, because it was a UMTS technology, and important industry patents, according to representatives of the EU, must be licensed on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" in accordance with an approved Open Mobile Alliance principle of licensing intellectual property rights «FRAND», which is intended to prevent hazardous industry patent disputes. A Samsung patents clearly abuses ...

According to Reuters citing an anonymous source, Samsung lawyers actively engaged in negotiations with the European Commission on the possibility of out of court settlement of the case. Still, they have something to worry about: the Korean giants face a fine in an impressive $ 17.3 billion.