CELEX: 62015TA0751
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-751/15: Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2017 — Contact Software v Commission (Competition — Abuse of a dominant position — Markets for computer-aided design software and for interface information about that software — Decision to reject a complaint — Relevant market — Manifest error of assessment — No EU interest)

30.10.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 369/9
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2017 — Contact Software v Commission
   (Case T-751/15) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Abuse of a dominant position - Markets for computer-aided design software and for interface information about that software - Decision to reject a complaint - Relevant market - Manifest error of assessment - No EU interest))
   (2017/C 369/12)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Contact Software GmbH (Bremen, Germany) (represented by: J.-M. Schultze, S. Pautke and C. Ehlenz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Vollrath, I. Zaloguin and L. Wildpanner, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Dassault systèmes (Vélizy-Villacoublay, France) (represented by: R. Snelders, lawyer, and J. Messent, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2015) 7006 final of 9 October 2015 rejecting the complaint lodged by the applicant regarding infringements of Article 102 TFEU allegedly committed by Dassault systèmes and Parametric Technology Corp. on certain markets for computer-aided design software and certain markets for interface information about that software (Case COMP/39846 — Contact/Dassault & Parametric).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Contact Software GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay the costs of the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Dassault systèmes to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 68, 22.2.2016.