EU Issues Order Against Motorola for Patents

Motorola Mobility, which Google Inc. is selling to Lenovo Group Ltd., faces European Union curbs on its legal efforts to thwart Apple Inc. as antitrust regulators seek to boost competition for smartphones and tablets. The company will get a “prohibition decision” for abusing key mobile-phone patents in its battle with the iPhone maker, Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s competition commissioner, told reporters today in London.