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PanOptis takes on Apple, Vestel issues antitrust litigation against HEVC patent pool, injunction granted against ZyXEL
This month’s CLIP is a comment from Assistant Professor John Newman on the German Competitio...
This month’s CLIP is a comment from Assistant Professor John Newman on the German Competition Authority’s (BKA) recent Facebook Decision regarding its use of user data.
The curtain has come down on the long running Hollywood movie/pay-TV licencing saga (see her...
The curtain has come down on the long running Hollywood movie/pay-TV licencing saga (see here). Plot synopsis Thi...
OxFirst’s Third IP and Competition Forum: Creating the Missing Link in the Digital Economy
The General Court’s judgment in Krka – some welcome clarity over licensing in the context of patent settlements
This month’s CLIP is an editorial in the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice wr...
This month’s CLIP is an editorial in the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice written by leading LSE economist Pablo Ibanez Colomo. Pablo writes regularly and is a co-founder of the superb Chillin’Competition blo...
In its judgment yesterday, the High Court rejected an application by Concordia to have a CMA...
In its judgment yesterday, the High Court rejected an application by Concordia to have a CMA search warrant discha...
In California, Judge Koh has granted partial summary judgment in favour of the FTC against Q...
In California, Judge Koh has granted partial summary judgment in favour of the FTC against Qualcomm, making an order that Qualcomm must license its SEPs to rival chipset manufacturers (such as Intel). We explained the background to...
On 29 October 2018, the government laid ‘The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulati...
On 29 October 2018, the government laid ‘The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019’ (the Competi...
We have previously reported on FRAND guidance from other jurisdictions outside of Europe, su...
We have previously reported on FRAND guidance from other jurisdictions outside of Europe, such as those published in South Korea a couple of years ago (see here), as well as on EU initiatives, such as last year’s Commission Communic...
Entering into agreements that erect barriers to parallel exports between EU markets is gener...
Entering into agreements that erect barriers to parallel exports between EU markets is generally a high-risk endea...
With Brexit fast approaching, the government has issued further technical notices that set o...
With Brexit fast approaching, the government has issued further technical notices that set out its plans in the event of ‘no deal’ with the EU27 (our post-referendum view on possible negotiated alternatives are here, although at pre...
In a judgment handed down on 7 September, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) upheld ...
In a judgment handed down on 7 September, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) upheld the CMA’s decision of ...
Competition law challenge to orphan drug prices in the Netherlands
Concordia and the CMA – a drama in (at least) three parts
Pharmaceutical stock management – the brand-owner practice of limiting quantities sold to le...
Pharmaceutical stock management – the brand-owner practice of limiting quantities sold to levels required for the local market in a bid to limit parallel exports – has been a feature of European markets for at least much of the past...
Last year, we speculated whether the European Commission might target pricing algorithms (he...
Last year, we speculated whether the European Commission might target pricing algorithms (here) and noted that the...
MasterCard and Visa MIFfed as the Court of Appeal considers two-sided markets, SCOTUS itself is two-sided (Part 2 – the USA)
MasterCard and Visa MIFfed as the Court of Appeal considers two-sided markets, SCOTUS itself is two-sided (Part 1 – the UK)
Last month, the entire Competition and Regulatory departments took the opportunity to tour o...
Last month, the entire Competition and Regulatory departments took the opportunity to tour our new Bristows office and to explore itsBelgian base. Since Bristows opened a Brussels office in May this year, members of the Competition...
“The principal issue is excessive pricing, … the reason for our conclusion is that the judg...
“The principal issue is excessive pricing, … the reason for our conclusion is that the judge erred in holding tha...
The CJEU guidance in MEO on price discrimination in licensing may also impact FRAND / SEP licences
Advertising in the digital age – the future role for competition law
In October last year we reported on the difficulties that the Commission was facing in draft...
In October last year we reported on the difficulties that the Commission was facing in drafting its Communication on SEPs, in particular relating to the issues of use-based licensing or chipset licensing (see here). We also noted t...
On 8 March 2018, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) gave an initial judgment (see here) i...
On 8 March 2018, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) gave an initial judgment (see here) in the appeals brought ...
CLIP of the month: Competition restraints in online sales after Coty and Asics – what’s next?
The Commission has fined Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominance. The Commission found ...
The Commission has fined Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominance. The Commission found that Qualcomm had paid Apple to use only Qualcomm LTE baseband chips in its smartphones and tablet devices (see here) and that this was excl...
On 18 January 2018 the European Commission approved Qualcomm’s proposed $47 billion acquisit...
On 18 January 2018 the European Commission approved Qualcomm’s proposed $47 billion acquisition of the Dutch semic...
USA v. UK – a united approach to FRAND? Comparing the new judgment in TCL v. Ericsson with Unwired Planet v. Huawei
The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) has today ruled that third-party platfor...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) has today ruled that third-party platform bans may be justified in the selective distribution of luxury goods. The CJEU’s decision in the Coty Germany reference proceedings broadly...
Following around a year of lobbying and intensive debate, the Commission has today (29 Novem...
Following around a year of lobbying and intensive debate, the Commission has today (29 November 2017) published it...
One of the more intriguing Opinions to be given by an Advocate General recently came out in ...
One of the more intriguing Opinions to be given by an Advocate General recently came out in late September (Case C-179/16, F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), Opinion of Advocat...
‘Product hopping’, or ‘evergreening’, are expressions used (by competition authorities and i...
‘Product hopping’, or ‘evergreening’, are expressions used (by competition authorities and industry respectively) ...
Today’s Intel judgment from the Court of Justice does not strictly concern the Competition L...
Today’s Intel judgment from the Court of Justice does not strictly concern the Competition Law/IP interface. However, it is a case which has considerable interest for potentially dominant companies, as well as a strong technology t...
On 19 May 2017 Apple issued a major claim against Qualcomm in the English Court. This is par...
On 19 May 2017 Apple issued a major claim against Qualcomm in the English Court. This is part of a widely reported...
A few months ago, we considered whether pricing algorithms might be the European Commission’...
A few months ago, we considered whether pricing algorithms might be the European Commission’s next antitrust target (here). The Commission had warned companies about the risks of using algorithms to collude, and indicated that prici...
The CMA has accepted commitments from ATG Media, the largest provider of online auction site...
The CMA has accepted commitments from ATG Media, the largest provider of online auction sites in the UK, to bring ...
It has been two weeks since Mr Justice Birss handed down his latest judgment in Unwired Plan...
It has been two weeks since Mr Justice Birss handed down his latest judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei (see here for a summary), which is almost long enough to get to grips with the 150 or so pages. There has already been a huge am...
Mr Justice Birss has just handed down the first decision by a UK court on the ever controver...
Mr Justice Birss has just handed down the first decision by a UK court on the ever controversial topic of what con...
True to its current focus on all things digital, the European Commission has recently announ...
True to its current focus on all things digital, the European Commission has recently announced that it has launched three separate investigations into whether certain online sales practices prevent, in breach of EU antitrust rules,...
Amazon has offered commitments to the European Commission to end the antitrust investigation...
Amazon has offered commitments to the European Commission to end the antitrust investigation into its use of ‘most...
Apple and Samsung have been engaged in litigation in the USA since 2011 over the issue of wh...
Apple and Samsung have been engaged in litigation in the USA since 2011 over the issue of whether various Samsung smartphones infringed a number of Apple’s design patents. Last year, the US Federal Circuit affirmed a jury award of $...
The year is 2011. The Office of Fair Trading (the predecessor to the current Competition an...
The year is 2011. The Office of Fair Trading (the predecessor to the current Competition and Markets Authority) c...
Hear it here first – competition law updates…
Premier League scores in latest dispute with pub broadcasting football matches
Earlier this month, the GSMA – an association representing various mobile operators – publis...
Earlier this month, the GSMA – an association representing various mobile operators – published a report: ‘Resetting Competition Policy Frameworks for the Digital Ecosystem’ – see here for an Executive Summary. The GSMA proposes a m...
Pricing issues in the pharmaceutical industry have continued to keep competition authorities...
Pricing issues in the pharmaceutical industry have continued to keep competition authorities busy, this time with ...
The privacy , competition law overlap: new competition rules on big data?
The Internet of Things (IoT) – a term used to describe the interconnectivity of electronic d...
The Internet of Things (IoT) – a term used to describe the interconnectivity of electronic devices via the internet or wi-fi – is no longer an entirely new phenomenon. Smart fridges, meters, watches and countless other connectable ...
Last week, the European Commission published its Preliminary Report in the e-commerce sector...
Last week, the European Commission published its Preliminary Report in the e-commerce sector inquiry. The Report f...
Connecting the DSM dots
Just over a week ago, the US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitr...
Just over a week ago, the US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division published a proposed updateto the current US Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property (the IP Licensing ...
Marketplace vendors had fixed prices by using and configuring “commercially-available automa...
Marketplace vendors had fixed prices by using and configuring “commercially-available automated repricing software...
Brexit What it means for competition law Q, A
Introduction It is difficult to think of a UK statesman who did more for European unity or w...
Introduction It is difficult to think of a UK statesman who did more for European unity or was more supportive of the idea of a union amongst the states of Europe than Winston Churchill and it is hence with some hesitation that we b...
The European Commission has accepted legally binding commitments from the International Swap...
The European Commission has accepted legally binding commitments from the International Swaps and Derivatives Asso...
Vodafone v Intellectual Ventures – Is a new front about to open in the FRAND wars?
Time to modernise standards?
Qualcomm, the largest manufacturer of baseband chipsets for mobile phones, has recently foun...
Qualcomm, the largest manufacturer of baseband chipsets for mobile phones, has recently found itself under attack again for its business practices. In September last year, the UK chipset maker Icera and its US-based parent company ...
For those of you who are interested in standardisation, a post about action by the Commissio...
For those of you who are interested in standardisation, a post about action by the Commission generally, rather th...
Keeping a weather eye on competition and innovation
Recent pay-TV developments: the dawning of a new era?
For those of you who read my blog post from earlier this month on the recent flurry of inter...
For those of you who read my blog post from earlier this month on the recent flurry of international IPR guidelines announcements (seehere), we thought some of you might be interested in a more in depth look at the Canadian IPR Enfo...
From today the NHS is likely to significantly increase the number of contracts it advertises...
From today the NHS is likely to significantly increase the number of contracts it advertises for external competit...
International spring cleaning: time to review those IPR guidelines…
Following up on Sophie’s recent blog, it was my pleasure to be the Bristows’ attendee at the...
Following up on Sophie’s recent blog, it was my pleasure to be the Bristows’ attendee at the second of this week’s FRAND/standardisation conferences, along with IP partner Alan Johnson. The conference, organised by the Competition L...
The context for the first of two standards-related conferences this week was the launch of t...
The context for the first of two standards-related conferences this week was the launch of theLiege Competition an...
Algorithmic agony? The perils of platform T&Cs
In December 2015, the European Commission launched a public consultation on whether Directiv...
In December 2015, the European Commission launched a public consultation on whether Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (the Enforcement Directive) is still fit for purpose. The Commission is see...
The German Competition Authority (BKA) has opened an investigation into Facebook “on suspici...
The German Competition Authority (BKA) has opened an investigation into Facebook “on suspicion of having abused it...
Why a Spanish state aid decision is making EU governments nervous
the licensing of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) on fair, reasonable, and no...
the licensing of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms. The Brussels-based Fair Standards Alliance (“FSA”) was launched in mid-November, ...
In a useful addition to the pool of incremental guidance on RAND royalties, the US Court of ...
In a useful addition to the pool of incremental guidance on RAND royalties, the US Court of Appeal for the Federal...
Approaches to Drugs Going Off-Patent: Naughty or NICE?
On 26 June 2015, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the closure of its...
On 26 June 2015, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the closure of its year-long investigation into a suspected breach of competition law by a pharmaceutical company. The investigation had looked into a loyalty...
In the past few months, Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent has been approved by the EU (C...
In the past few months, Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent has been approved by the EU (Case M.7632, decided 24...
Online platforms hold on tight
On 11 September 2015 the Antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced in a speech at...
On 11 September 2015 the Antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced in a speech at the 19th IBA Conference in Florence that certain companies are potentially circumventing the rules established by the Court of Justice in t...
You could be forgiven for thinking that after a busy year DG Competition would take a break ...
You could be forgiven for thinking that after a busy year DG Competition would take a break over the summer period...
Flynn, Pfizer and Pharma in the Frame
Product-hopping prohibited – Actavis’s most recent brush with US antitrust
Last week, the European Commission made concrete moves which it thinks will help it to deliv...
Last week, the European Commission made concrete moves which it thinks will help it to deliver on its promise to create a Single Digital Market. On Thursday (23 July) DG Competition sent a statement of objections to six major Holly...
This is the second of two related posts looking at the recent CJEU ruling in Huawei v. ZTE. ...
This is the second of two related posts looking at the recent CJEU ruling in Huawei v. ZTE. In the first post, I ...
The unseen risks of e-commerce – a timely AG opinion on technical measures for breaching the competition rules
A sympathetic Australian approach to life cycle management and recent CMA guidance on Pharma sector rebates
The seminar scheduled for 17 June has been postponed as on 16 June Rosemary Choueka, a partn...
The seminar scheduled for 17 June has been postponed as on 16 June Rosemary Choueka, a partner in our team, and a blogger on this site, lost her fight against cancer. We decided not to proceed, given her untimely death. We hope tha...
I had the privilege last week of taking part in a conference on the subject of Litigation an...
I had the privilege last week of taking part in a conference on the subject of Litigation and Settlements in Paten...
European Commission announces e-commerce sector inquiry
New DG Connect Guidelines on interoperability information – shedding some light on the vexed question of IP valuation
On 26 March the Consumer Rights Act 2015 was enacted. The Act will bring about substantive ...
On 26 March the Consumer Rights Act 2015 was enacted. The Act will bring about substantive change in a number of areas. Of most interest to competition law buffs is Section 81 of the Act which gives effect to Schedule 8 which, in ...
Lord Justice Floyd has had occasion recently to remind us of the re-packaging/re-labelling r...
Lord Justice Floyd has had occasion recently to remind us of the re-packaging/re-labelling rules in a recent Court...
Fast track CAT injunctions – have your say on the draft rules
The published Lundbeck decision – first impressions (with some facts, a little law and three remarkable points)
Competition lawyers could be forgiven for raising a quizzical eyebrow at the judgment handed...
Competition lawyers could be forgiven for raising a quizzical eyebrow at the judgment handed down by the Arnold J in Warner-Lambert/Actavis on 21 January 2015. His final words, in a judgment which otherwise dealt with a claim for in...
Towards the end of last year, I contributed a couple of articles to Bristows’ Biotech Review...
Towards the end of last year, I contributed a couple of articles to Bristows’ Biotech Review publication. One art...
The Commission’s 5th report on patent settlements – a pretty picture?
The recent Judgment of the US Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (‘CAFC’) in Ericsson v...
The recent Judgment of the US Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (‘CAFC’) in Ericsson v DLink addresses an issue of perennial interest to those involved in litigating or licensing standard essential patents (SEPs) – and t...
In a first superhero-related post on this blog, we note with interest that the US per se rul...
In a first superhero-related post on this blog, we note with interest that the US per se rule against post-term pa...
A barrel of laughs…..
Yesterday, Advocate General Bot delivered two opinions giving the thumbs up to the proposed ...
Yesterday, Advocate General Bot delivered two opinions giving the thumbs up to the proposed Unitary Patent system. This is a very significant step towards the development of a transnational system of enforcing patents in Europe (cu...
14 October marked World Standards Day, to celebrate the role of standards in developing harm...
14 October marked World Standards Day, to celebrate the role of standards in developing harmonisation and competit...
Commission Decision to increase cooperation with Member States on IP
Non-challenging reading for the weekend
Sophie blogged a wee* while ago on the Opinion of AG Wahl in Cartes Bancaires, of interest b...
Sophie blogged a wee* while ago on the Opinion of AG Wahl in Cartes Bancaires, of interest because it discussed the distinction between agreements which are anti-competitive ‘by object’ and those which are anti-competitive ‘by effec...
As you may have gathered by now, on this blog we are a little obsessed by the topic of Intel...
As you may have gathered by now, on this blog we are a little obsessed by the topic of Intellectual Property and h...
Innovation and Intellectual Property – a controversy?”
Brazil joins the ‘pay-for-delay’ party
2007-09: European Commission investigates Qualcomm for possible abuse of a dominant position...
2007-09: European Commission investigates Qualcomm for possible abuse of a dominant position in relation to compliance with FRAND and licensing terms for WCDMA (3G) technology, a case ultimately closed on grounds of administrative p...
Recent developments (in particular the Motorola / Samsung decisions relating to the use of s...
Recent developments (in particular the Motorola / Samsung decisions relating to the use of standard essential pate...
Fast track CAT injunctions
ZTE files competition complaint against Vringo with the European Commission
Patent litigation practitioners in the courts of England & Wales are not generally know...
Patent litigation practitioners in the courts of England & Wales are not generally known for their love of competition law. But now that old ‘enemy’ may be about to come to the aid of patent practitioners in the fac...
Following on from yesterday’s post, I recently recorded another webinar for MBL which will b...
Following on from yesterday’s post, I recently recorded another webinar for MBL which will be streamed live from 1...
Reckitt Benckiser reduces its competition law heartache in the UK / takes some of its own medicine
The revised technology transfer regime: is there more to patents than their validity?
Further to recent ramblings on the ‘Czech Spa’ case, I thought I’d quickly mention another c...
Further to recent ramblings on the ‘Czech Spa’ case, I thought I’d quickly mention another collecting society case. As you’ll remember, collecting societies operate in two-sided markets, providing services to both: (i) the copyrigh...
A case announced in the US earlier this month could have been designed to tick as many ̵...
A case announced in the US earlier this month could have been designed to tick as many ‘topical’ boxes...
University spin-out merger decision: lessons to be learned
Many AG opinions are just a forgettable ‘entremet’ between the General Court hors d’oeuvre and the main course offered by the Court of Justice. But once in a while a game-changing Advocate General Opinion is offered up – for me (and many competition lawyers, particularly those with an interest in the comp-IP interface), these would be the opinion of Sir Francis Jacobs in Oscar Bronner and that of… Sir Francis Jacobs in Syfait / GSK (a case in which the main meal was considerably delayed). And now we have the Opinion of AG Nils Wahl in Cartes Bancaires (currently available only in French or Greek*). The central subject of the opinion is the question of whether the tariff arrangements of Cartes Bancaires (a grouping of French banks) in relation to credit cards is an agreement which restricts competition by ‘object’. There has been a marked expansion of the object category of anti-competitive agreements over recent years. Notably, last year’s Court of Justice ruling attracted a barrage of criticism for identifying an object restriction on the basis of a complex factual analysis which many believed was more suited to an ‘effects’ case. This matters, of course, because it is considerably easier for competition authorities (and indeed, private claimants) to prove an object infringement, and considerably harder for companies to defend such an allegation. AG Wahl takes direct aim at this blurring of the categories. His arguments are buttressed by international practice (notably the US distinction between ‘per se’ and ‘rule of reason’ infringements), and analysis of the policy reason for having object infringements at all, noting in particular the benefits of procedural economy for the regulator and legal certainty for companies operating on the market. But, he says: “Such advantages will, however, be obtained only if recourse to the notion of restriction by object is clearly circumscribed” – if this is not the case, “this could lead to the inclusion in the object category of conduct where the harmful effects on competition are not clearly established”. For this reason, a “damaging slippage” between object and effect-type restrictions must be resisted, with the former category being reserved for “conduct which presents an intrinsic risk of particularly serious prejudicial effects or of conducts where it can be presumed that the detriment to competition outweighs the pro-competitive effects” (my underlining). Similarly, a “restrictive” interpretation must be given to the question of which agreements are anti-competitive by object. And in this case? AG Wahl has in effect said “must do better” to the General Court which, he recommends, needs to look at the case again in order to establish whether the agreement was really anti-competitive by object. In doing so, it has been given a strong steer that comments made by individuals within one or two of the (many) parties to the agreement have little or no bearing on whether the agreement is actually restrictive by object. Attentive readers may be asking – why is this a Competition Law / IP interface issue? Well – perhaps it’s simply the case that some things are so important that we feel compelled to transcend our ‘CLIP’ remit. But it is also worth bearing in mind the implications for interface cases which are currently in the Court pipeline. For example, it is clear from comments made by Alexander Italianer (Director General of DG Comp) in a speech last year that the Commission’s recent Lundbeck decision, its standard-bearer case in the area of patent settlement agreements, is based on the identification of an object restriction. This contrasts with the US Supreme Court’s use of a ‘rule of reason’ test in Actavis, as we discussed a few months ago. The Commission’s press release announcing the Lundbeck decision also emphasises a couple of statements which suggest the parties’ ‘bad intention’. If the Court of Justice confirms AG Wahl’s analysis in relation to object infringements and the (ir)relevance of pre-contractual statements in Cartes Bancaires, the task of DG Comp’s legal service in defending its decision will have been made that little bit harder. But for now, we will have to wait and see whether AG Wahl’s Opinion will prove to be ‘an indigestible dish’** for the Commission, or whether it will fade into insignificance when the Court of Justice rules. * Translations – from the French – are mine, forgiveness is sought for any errors… ** Kudos for readers who can spot the Competition Law/IP interface case from which I’m quoting here…
The European Commission has announced that it has adopted a revised technology transfer bloc...
The European Commission has announced that it has adopted a revised technology transfer block exemption regulation and new technology transfer guidelines (see press release, FAQs, new TTBER and the new guidelines). The TTBER and gu...
Those of you who are following developments in the Commission’s ‘pay-for-delay’ investigatio...
Those of you who are following developments in the Commission’s ‘pay-for-delay’ investigations may find my short a...
Collusion in the standard-setting context – are we likely to see claims in the EU?
Five interesting things you might not have spotted about Case C-351/12, OSA (AKA the “Czech Spa” case)
Courtesy of our friend Daniela Ampollini of Trevisan Cuonzo, we have now seen an unofficial ...
Courtesy of our friend Daniela Ampollini of Trevisan Cuonzo, we have now seen an unofficial translation of the recent Consiglio di Stato (CS) judgment in the Pfizer Xalatan/latanoprost case. We have already referred readers to Dani...
I have noticed a couple of recent developments which seem indicative of increasing global co...
I have noticed a couple of recent developments which seem indicative of increasing global convergence on conduct w...
Teva / Cephalon merger decision – no reason to nod off
HTC v Nokia (UK) – no case for exhaustion….
Last night, we held our eagerly awaited roundtable discussion: “Technology licensing: adapti...
Last night, we held our eagerly awaited roundtable discussion: “Technology licensing: adapting to the EU’s new regime”. After a quick introduction outlining how the European Commission’s approach to licensing has evolved, we ...
Of particular interest to us UK based competition lawyers, today is the last day of trading ...
Of particular interest to us UK based competition lawyers, today is the last day of trading for the UK’s Office of...
“Les génériques dangereuses”: denigration and other recent pharma sector competition issues in France
Smart tactics in the smartphone war?
Companies in sectors where IP and innovation are important often find themselves embroiled i...
Companies in sectors where IP and innovation are important often find themselves embroiled in litigation – and sometimes that litigation even involves competition law! A current example is the litigation in the UK against Reckitt B...
In 2010, the OFT fined Reckitt Benckiser £10.2 million for abusing a dominant position, foll...
In 2010, the OFT fined Reckitt Benckiser £10.2 million for abusing a dominant position, following an investigation...
The OFT tackles restrictions on the online availability of medical devices
Territorial licensing in the spotlight (again)
The team has written practice notes which explore some of the complexities that IP create fo...
The team has written practice notes which explore some of the complexities that IP create for competition law, the most recent of these (for LexisPSL) can be found here: Applying block exemptions to IP agreements The impact of IP ri...
Following on from Pat’s post, the German competition authority on 23 December closed its inv...
Following on from Pat’s post, the German competition authority on 23 December closed its investigation into the re...
French Competition Authority fines Schering-Plough for abuse of dominant position
Find a Patent: Intellectual Venture’s searchable portfolio
The ever controversial issue of the availability of injunctive relief for FRAND-encumbered S...
The ever controversial issue of the availability of injunctive relief for FRAND-encumbered SEPs took centre stage at the latest meeting of the ETSI IPR Special Committee (10-12 December 2013). A number of network operators (‘NOs’) p...
In its judgment, the Court ruled that, despite the high market share of the merged entity on...
In its judgment, the Court ruled that, despite the high market share of the merged entity on the online consumer c...
Almunia’s speech
In November 2013, Commissioner Almunia delivered a speech at the London School of Economics ...
In November 2013, Commissioner Almunia delivered a speech at the London School of Economics entitled “Competition in the Online World”. Almunia set out his perception of the importance of competition law enforcement in the online s...
An NPE, Cascades, has accused a group of handset manufacturers of entering into a collective...
An NPE, Cascades, has accused a group of handset manufacturers of entering into a collective ‘boycott’...
On 5 November, the High Court granted injunctions against Barclays in two curious cases conc...
On 5 November, the High Court granted injunctions against Barclays in two curious cases concerning ‘refusals to supply’ banking services to money service businesses. It was alleged that Barclays’ withdrawal of the services in quest...
Could the Supreme Court’s judgment lead to preliminary injunctions becoming a routine featur...
Could the Supreme Court’s judgment lead to preliminary injunctions becoming a routine feature of UK litigation? An...
Every little bit helps: with luck, the new groceries code adjudicator will effect real change
Pat Treacy discusses competition law issues …