European accused Google of trying to block sales of Apple

European Commission accused the Motorola subsidiary of Google abusing its holdings of patents to issue an injunction hinder Apple's sales in Germany under the pretext of the recent use of techniques especially Bmotourula in the iPhone phones.


The Google paid $ 12.5 billion in 2011 to acquire Motorola, which owns about 17 thousand patents in the smart phone industry which raised since that time concerns about the exploitation of Google to block competitors.

The Commission said in a statement that it was informed Motorola's initial vision in an indictment made ​​by the company, owned by Google.

He said EU Commissioner for Competition, Joaquin Almunia, "I think that companies should invest their time in innovation and competition to improve the products offered by and not misuse of intellectual property rights to block competitors at the expense of innovation and the right of consumer choice."

Almunia had said earlier this year that the Commission was considering charging more companies doing monopolistic practices by taking advantage of judicial rulings in preventing competitors from using patents invented rather than negotiate a fair fee.