French Competition Authority saddles Bikeurope with €250,000 fine
Interim measures are back – Broadcom faces EC probe
Killer acquisitions: the CMA and the iZettle/Paypal merger
Within the past week, the European Commission has issued two new statements of objections on...
Within the past week, the European Commission has issued two new statements of objections on topics of interest for this blog.
The dust has not quite yet settled on the Unwired Planet litigation saga, Huawei has applied...
The dust has not quite yet settled on the Unwired Planet litigation saga, Huawei has applied for permission to app...
Just (Don’t) Do It – Commission fines Nike €12.5 million for restricting cross-border sales
CLIP of the month: The Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook Decision and the intersection of competition law and data protection
Final credits roll on the Hollywood movies pay-TV saga
Chancellor’s Spring Statement: Digital Advertising Market Study
This week Bristows is sponsoring, and I have the privilege to be speaking alongside fellow B...
This week Bristows is sponsoring, and I have the privilege to be speaking alongside fellow Bristows partner Myles Jelf and a host of luminaries from the world of SEPs and FRAND atOxFirst’s Third IP and Competition Forum in Brussels....
We reported on this blog about the General Court (GC)’s judgment in Servier on the day on wh...
We reported on this blog about the General Court (GC)’s judgment in Servier on the day on which that judgment was ...
3rd Annual W@Competition Conference
CLIP of the month: Competition law and innovation – where do we stand?
High Court rejects application to discharge CMA search warrant
Canal+ finds copyright is no match for the EU single market
The General Court has today handed down its judgment in the long-running Servier patent sett...
The General Court has today handed down its judgment in the long-running Servier patent settlement case. It remains a rare event that the European Courts annul Commission decisions under Article 101 and, in particular, Article 102...
Pricing issues in the pharmaceutical industry continue to keep European competition authorit...
Pricing issues in the pharmaceutical industry continue to keep European competition authorities busy. From the UK ...
Maintaining competition in online advertising: the US FTC’s 1-800 Contacts decision
US District Court confirms that Qualcomm must offer RAND SEP licences to rival chipset manufacturers
Brexit and Competition Law: CMA publishes guidance on its role in a “no-deal” scenario
CLIP of the month: Does orphan drug pricing pose an antitrust problem?
The keenly awaited appeal judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei was handed down yesterday. In ...
The keenly awaited appeal judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei was handed down yesterday. In its unanimous judgment, the Court of Appeal dismissed Huawei’s appeal, confirming Mr Justice Birss’s first instance decision (see previous c...
The Commission’s SEP Communication was designed to offer guidance on FRAND and SEP licensing...
The Commission’s SEP Communication was designed to offer guidance on FRAND and SEP licensing. However, as we have ...
Polish Plant Protection Products: CJEU confirms Commission was right to reject investigation
Global FRAND issues unpicked in Japan Patent Office’s new licensing guidance
Request to re-open Glaxo ‘dual pricing’ case rejected by General Court: The end of the road for challenges to dual pricing?
CLIP of the month: Strengthening Buyer Power as a Solution to Platform Market Power?
Following up on our recent post about the big data concerns assessed by the Commission in th...
Following up on our recent post about the big data concerns assessed by the Commission in the Apple/Shazam merger (here), the news that the Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into Amazon’s use of third-party merchant ...
Consider the following hypothetical scenarios: A group of suppliers of medical device equipm...
Consider the following hypothetical scenarios: A group of suppliers of medical device equipment meet to draw up mi...
Summer FRAND developments: some big antitrust news to come
BEIS notice on competition law in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit
The Ping judgment – CAT confirms that internet sales ban is restrictive of competition ‘by object’
Big Data? No antitrust problem for Apple/Shazam
Some months back, we reported on an initiative by the Dutch Council for Public Health and So...
Some months back, we reported on an initiative by the Dutch Council for Public Health and Society which considered measures for containing high drug prices. Of particular note were the proposals for compulsory licensing, and the ap...
Last week, Concordia International released a management report in which it announced the na...
Last week, Concordia International released a management report in which it announced the names of six drugs curre...
Online advertising – Government acknowledges challenges ahead for competition law
Pharma stock management – nothing extraordinary in limiting parallel trade?
Commission considers pricing algorithms in fining consumer electronics manufacturers for RPM
Coty gets green light for online platform ban
Following on from yesterday’s blog on the MasterCard / Visa decision, we’ve also taken a loo...
Following on from yesterday’s blog on the MasterCard / Visa decision, we’ve also taken a look at how the US is approaching antitrust issues in two-sided markets, with SCOTUS giving its first Opinion on these in the AmEx litigation (...
Whilst the Court of Appeal’s judgment in MasterCard / Visa, and the SCOTUS Opinion in AmEx m...
Whilst the Court of Appeal’s judgment in MasterCard / Visa, and the SCOTUS Opinion in AmEx may seem a little outsi...
European Commission sets up SEP Licensing Expert Group
Bienvenue à Bruxelles! Bristows’ Competition and Regulatory teams visit the new Continental Base
CAT judgment in Pfizer/Flynn: Was the CMA ‘unfair’ in its assessment of Pfizer and Flynn’s prices?
FRAND in the UK (May 2018 edition): Unwired Planet appeal, Apple v Qualcomm
Introduction AG Wahl began his Opinion in MEO v Autoridade da Concorrência by noting that it...
Introduction AG Wahl began his Opinion in MEO v Autoridade da Concorrência by noting that it presented the CJEU with an opportunity to clarify the law on differential pricing. Under Article 102(c) TFEU it can be an abuse for a domin...
The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications has published its final report followi...
The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications has published its final report following a wide-ranging inve...
‘Baysanto’: EU merger clearance of the Bayer/Monsanto confirms continued attention to innovation markets
Race to publish rival SEP , FRAND Codes of Conduct: new CEN-CENELEC working groups established
Depression delayed: CMA’s paroxetine pay-for-delay case heads to Luxembourg
The BKA’s Facebook investigation: new frontier or regulatory overreach?
This month’s CLIP comes from the Bundeskartellamt’s thought-provoking series of papers on ‘C...
This month’s CLIP comes from the Bundeskartellamt’s thought-provoking series of papers on ‘Competition and Consumer Protection in the Digital Economy’. In this paper the German competition authority considers the extent to which man...
CRISPR-Cas9 is heralded as a revolutionary gene editing technology that is regularly hitting...
CRISPR-Cas9 is heralded as a revolutionary gene editing technology that is regularly hitting the headlines for bot...
Excessive pricing spreads to Denmark – a cautionary tale about exclusive licensing
The chips are down! The Commission fines Qualcomm for abuse of dominance
Licensing commitments sufficient for Qualcomm to secure NXP takeover green light
French competition authority fines pharma company for its anti-generic ‘commando’ sales tactics
In August last year, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it had im...
In August last year, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it had imposed a fine of £1.45 million on Ping Europe Limited (Ping) for breaching the EU and UK competition rules. The CMA found that Ping had infr...
On 21 December 2017, Judge Selna of the US District Court for the Central District of Califo...
On 21 December 2017, Judge Selna of the US District Court for the Central District of California released a judgme...
In a froth: Trademark licensing fails to disguise anti-competitive market sharing arrangement
Third-party platform bans justified for genuinely luxury brands
Commission Communication on SEP Licensing – where has the Roadmap led?
Deciding on terms of privacy policies – what are the risks of anti-competitive collusion?
Shortly before becoming the new home of the EMA, the Netherlands piqued the interest of the ...
Shortly before becoming the new home of the EMA, the Netherlands piqued the interest of the pharma industry with a controversial move on drug pricing. The move consisted of a recommendation by the Dutch Council for Public Health an...
On 20 November the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached anagreement t...
On 20 November the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached anagreement to adopt the proposed G...
French Pharma – French Competition Authority launches new sector enquiry
Economical with the truth? When providing misleading information to authorities might be an object infringement
Product hopping: The competition law risks of launching new product formulations
Introducing On the Pulse – the Bristows life sciences microsite
In April this year we reported that the Commission had released aRoadmap towards a ‘Communic...
In April this year we reported that the Commission had released aRoadmap towards a ‘Communication on Standard Essential Patents for a European digitalised economy’, intended to address some of the uncertainties in SEP licensing lef...
Johannes Laitenberger (Director-General for Competition, European Commission) spoke last wee...
Johannes Laitenberger (Director-General for Competition, European Commission) spoke last week on an increasingly p...
Licensing of Latvian collecting society prompts CJEU to provide greater clarity on how to determine excessive pricing
The CJEU’s Intel judgment – First thoughts and some predictions
Apple’s battle with Qualcomm spreads to the UK
Excessive Pricing: Aspen lose their appeal in Italy – and are in the Commission’s crosshairs
We have written on a number of occasions in the past (examples here) about the ways in which...
We have written on a number of occasions in the past (examples here) about the ways in which antitrust grapples with the potential for product innovations to have adverse effects on competition. Generally, such effects are felt by ...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) has today handed down Advocate General W...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) has today handed down Advocate General Wahl’s opinion in the C...
A FRAND torpedo? An update on Vodafone v Intellectual Ventures
Antitrust authorities are increasingly interested in pricing algorithms
Online auction commitments demonstrate digital markets are central to CMA’s priorities
Unwired Planet v Huawei: a new FRAND injunction
An announcement by the European Commission last week resolves an open question about its vie...
An announcement by the European Commission last week resolves an open question about its view on the recent spate of pharma sector excessive pricing cases that have been seen in Italy and the UK. The Commission has now confirmed th...
On 10 May 2017 the European Commission published its Final Report on the E-commerce Sector I...
On 10 May 2017 the European Commission published its Final Report on the E-commerce Sector Inquiry, together with ...
Patent licensing: 5G & the Internet of Things
Unwired Planet v Huawei: Is FRAND now a competition law free zone? Not so fast…
Unwired Planet v Huawei: UK High Court determines FRAND licence rate
EU Commission’s Microsoft / LinkedIn Decision – watershed for competition and data?
There has been considerable debate over the last year or so about the potential anti-competi...
There has been considerable debate over the last year or so about the potential anti-competitive impacts of pricing algorithms. They could lead to discriminatory pricing, for example a company quoting different prices to different p...
We reported last year on the Eturas decision, in which the Court of Justice ruled that techn...
We reported last year on the Eturas decision, in which the Court of Justice ruled that technical measures applied ...
Pay-for-delay focus on steroids
Back to the future: the Commission opens e-commerce competition investigations
Amazon’s E-Books antitrust saga – War now Peace?
Patent licensing and antitrust – Qualcomm in the firing line
On 18 January, the FTC announced that Mallinckrodt ARD Inc. (formerly Questcor Pharmaceutica...
On 18 January, the FTC announced that Mallinckrodt ARD Inc. (formerly Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) and its parent company have agreed to pay $100 million to settle FTC charges that they violated antitrust laws when Questcor acqui...
The Commission has published its Data Economy Package for non-personal data*, which is the f...
The Commission has published its Data Economy Package for non-personal data*, which is the final building block of...
A decision of Paramount importance to independent film financing…?
The vexed question of the appropriate ‘royalty base’ for FRAND-based damages – the US Supreme Court declines to answer
When the price isn’t right – CMA fines Pfizer / Flynn for excessive pricing
We need to talk…about Pharmaceuticals and Standard Essential Patents
Our readers may be interested in two events next week at which Sophie Lawrance, one of Brist...
Our readers may be interested in two events next week at which Sophie Lawrance, one of Bristows’ competition partners, will be speaking on issues dear to the heart of this blog. On Tuesday 6 December 2016, at the Competition Law in...
The ever-increasing amount of money tied up in TV deals for Premier League football perhaps ...
The ever-increasing amount of money tied up in TV deals for Premier League football perhaps makes it unsurprising ...
High Court Rules in Article 50 Case
Resetting Competition Policy Frameworks
Excessive pricing: the Italian version
The European Commission’s E-commerce Conference
A recent judgment from Mr Justice Roth in the Patents Court highlights the importance of par...
A recent judgment from Mr Justice Roth in the Patents Court highlights the importance of parties considering the sensible case management of competition defences in patent litigation and potential cost implications. The judgment is ...
A few days ago, we reported on the European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS) Opinion on c...
A few days ago, we reported on the European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS) Opinion on coherent enforcement of...
The privacy , competition law overlap: co-operation between enforcement agencies?
Patent Licensing and the Internet of Things – a Solution?
E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Digital Content
EU Court to rule on ability of luxury brand owners to control online distribution
On Friday 9 September 2016, I attended the International Conference on Competition and Regul...
On Friday 9 September 2016, I attended the International Conference on Competition and Regulation in Digital Markets, a smoothly-run conference hosted by the University of Leeds School of Law. It featured a host of well-informed spe...
European Commission releases proposals on copyright and telecoms as part of Digital Single M...
European Commission releases proposals on copyright and telecoms as part of Digital Single Market strategy Today t...
Breaking news – General Court confirms Lundbeck decision and fine
Proposed changes to the US Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property – a transatlantic perspective
Online poster seller in the frame for algorithm-centred price-fixing cartel
This summer’s (not so) light reading – the CMA’s published Paroxetine decision (GSK/generics)
In this article in Competition Law Insight we consider how intellectual property rights and ...
In this article in Competition Law Insight we consider how intellectual property rights and competition law can appear to be at odds: the former grants temporary monopolies and the latter protects and encourages market competition. ...
As the dust begins to settle on the momentous events that unfolded in the early hours of Fri...
As the dust begins to settle on the momentous events that unfolded in the early hours of Friday 24 June, focus ine...
That’s a wrap! The European Commission accepts Paramount’s pay-TV commitments
Brexit – what next? A competition law perspective
FRAND in Finance
Testing the patent pool waters
When Intellectual Ventures (IV), the world’s largest non-practising entity, sued Vodafone Gm...
When Intellectual Ventures (IV), the world’s largest non-practising entity, sued Vodafone GmbH for infringement of a batch of its standard essential patents (SEPs) in Germany last September, it probably wasn’t expecting the communic...
As part of its Single Market Strategy, the Commission has announced that it will take steps ...
As part of its Single Market Strategy, the Commission has announced that it will take steps to modernise the EU’s ...
May Day! Competition policy: trade war by other means?
Qualcomm in the firing line again
The Commission has seen the future and it is standardised!
More on mythical creatures – FRAND and hold up revisited
Last week we updated our CLIP of the month to an article on the theme of innovation, as cons...
Last week we updated our CLIP of the month to an article on the theme of innovation, as considered through the lens of competition law. Pablo Ibanez Colomo’s articlefocuses on the identification of harm to innovation in competition...
As part of the European Commission’s ongoing pay-TV investigation, it was announced last wee...
As part of the European Commission’s ongoing pay-TV investigation, it was announced last week that Paramount Pictu...
The CMA still has pharma and medical devices in its sights
UPDATE: International spring cleaning time to review those IPR Guidelines
The NHS opens up to increased competition
A relatively rare beast: CMA clearance of a pharmaceutical sector merger
A number of national competition agencies have recently been reviewing their IPR guidelines ...
A number of national competition agencies have recently been reviewing their IPR guidelines giving rise to some interesting trends and developments… On 31 March 2016 the Canadian Competition Bureau released updated IPR Enforcement...
relationship between Article 101(1) and patent licences. This arose from a disputed arbitrat...
relationship between Article 101(1) and patent licences. This arose from a disputed arbitration award between Gene...
Digital Single Market – geo-blocking of digital content
A week of Standard Setting Conferences – Part II, the London Leg
A week of standard setting conferences – part 1: FRAND, hold-up and other mythical creatures
Standards, standards everywhere
In a recent judgment, the High Court recognised that the rapid development of new products a...
In a recent judgment, the High Court recognised that the rapid development of new products and services online presents challenges for competition law, making clear that we must have regard to the “particular characteristics” of thi...
The rise of machine learning gives rise to knotty legal problems, whether these relate to ho...
The rise of machine learning gives rise to knotty legal problems, whether these relate to how the law applies to r...
CMA’s mood boosted over fines for anti-depressant
The Commission’s consultation on the IP Enforcement Directive – a competition as well as an IP issue
Germany’s competition probe into Facebook’s T&Cs, precedent or outlier?
The Commission’s 2016 Competition Enforcement Priorities: the Digital Economy and Standard Essential Patents
In an expansion of our usual repertoire, this post is taking a quick look at the relationshi...
In an expansion of our usual repertoire, this post is taking a quick look at the relationship between EU state aid rules and national support for national television platforms. The long running Spanish state aid saga, concerning th...
Margrethe Vestager, EU Competition Commissioner, addressed Munich’s zeitgeist-setting Digita...
Margrethe Vestager, EU Competition Commissioner, addressed Munich’s zeitgeist-setting Digital Life Design (DLD) Co...
Loyal to investigating pharma product discounts? – New CMA investigation
New industry coalition established to promote FRAND licensing
US Court guidance on principles to apply for RAND royalty calculations
6th Report on the Monitoring of Patents Settlements – déjà vu?
Last month the CMA published its evaluation of the OFT’s 2011 decision concerning Reckitt Be...
Last month the CMA published its evaluation of the OFT’s 2011 decision concerning Reckitt Benckiser’s withdrawal of Gaviscon prescription packs (which we wrote about, in the context of follow-on actions, here). Such evaluations asse...
“The Internet is the oxygen of our digital economy and society. We are more and more c...
“The Internet is the oxygen of our digital economy and society. We are more and more connected, at every mom...
Analogue taxis and hotels beware! The EU Internal Market Strategy is published
CMA investigates pharmaceutical sector pricing issues
Nokia / Alcatel-Lucent’s SEP portfolio: A tale of two mergers
Huawei v ZTE – three months on
…Geo-blocking and online platforms are the next dip in the roller-coaster that is the ...
…Geo-blocking and online platforms are the next dip in the roller-coaster that is the e-commerce sector enquiry – which is fast gathering pace. On 24 September 2015 the European Commission announced that it is now launc...
On 9 October 2015, the European Commission published its clearance decision in relation to t...
On 9 October 2015, the European Commission published its clearance decision in relation to the joint venture betwe...
Competition law as panacea for high prices?
Huawei may not be the end of the story
No rest for the Commission
Interested in competition law developments in the pharma sector…?
Whilst the European Commission has shifted its focus to e-commerce and all things digital (s...
Whilst the European Commission has shifted its focus to e-commerce and all things digital (see here, here, here and here), the CMA has put the spotlight back on pharma – this time, looking at pricing issues. On 6 August 2015, the C...
Interim mandatory relief to compel a company to continue doing something it wanted to stop d...
Interim mandatory relief to compel a company to continue doing something it wanted to stop doing is one of the mor...
Digital markets, DG Comp’s policy on data / privacy and some crystal-ball gazing
Geo-blocking and the Single Digital Market: a new statement of objections
CJEU judgment in Huawei v ZTE (Case C-130/13): theory and practice (2: Practice)
CJEU judgment in Huawei v ZTE (Case C-130/13): theory and practice (1: Theory)
Those interested in all things e-commerce and competition will want to keep an eye out for t...
Those interested in all things e-commerce and competition will want to keep an eye out for the Court of Justice’s ruling on a preliminary reference made by Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court. The case (Case C 74/1...
Our new CLIP of the month comes from one of the antitrust blogs recommended on our sidebar. ...
Our new CLIP of the month comes from one of the antitrust blogs recommended on our sidebar. A guest contributor o...
The e-Commerce sector inquiry gets under way
Rosemary Choueka
Non-challenging times…
Try before you buy: pre-action disclosure of licences
Everything Online is the focus of the European Commission’s latest sector inquiry announced ...
Everything Online is the focus of the European Commission’s latest sector inquiry announced on 26 March 2015. This inquiry focuses on the e-commerce sector and is aimed at identifying key technical or contractual barriers to cross-...
Last year, I had the opportunity to contribute in a small way to an interesting project orga...
Last year, I had the opportunity to contribute in a small way to an interesting project organised by DG Connect un...
UK Supreme Court ruling on standard of review for CAT appeals in 08x numbers case
Enacted: Consumer Rights Act 2015
Sticky switching opens the way to over-stickering
German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) decision in HRS (online hotel booking)
6 February saw a new consultation on a draft set of new rules of procedure for the Competiti...
6 February saw a new consultation on a draft set of new rules of procedure for the Competition Appeal Tribunal (‘CAT’). One potentially very significant aspect of the proposed changes is the proposal to empower the CAT...
Over a year and a half after it was decided (a delay which this blog has bemoaned in the pas...
Over a year and a half after it was decided (a delay which this blog has bemoaned in the past), the Commission las...
Companies ShrIEEEk at new SSO bylaws
Warner-Lambert/Actavis – Competition Law Insights
(Bio-)Similar views?
Chinese MIIT identifies basis for a FRAND royalty rate
This blog on the competition law/IP Interface has had an interest in how competition interve...
This blog on the competition law/IP Interface has had an interest in how competition interventions may impact on innovation for some time now. 2014 saw a number of posts on topics such as whether competition law is able to take suf...
Earlier this month the Commission published its 5th report on the monitoring of patent settl...
Earlier this month the Commission published its 5th report on the monitoring of patent settlements, looking at tho...
More on predatory innovation – and innovative Apples…
SEPs and FRAND: The calculation of RAND royalties in the US – incremental guidance
With great patents, there must come great restraint (but a bit less in the EU than the US)
Most-favoured-nation clauses in e-commerce: a guest economist’s view!
The IP/competition interface was in the spotlight at the Court of Justice yesterday. The op...
The IP/competition interface was in the spotlight at the Court of Justice yesterday. The opinion of the Advocate General in response to a reference from the German Court in Huawei v. ZTE had been eagerly awaited, but early readers ...
While this blog usually grapples with serious matters relating to the interrelationship betw...
While this blog usually grapples with serious matters relating to the interrelationship between Intellectual Prope...
STOP PRESS – AG Opinion in Huawei v ZTE published today
Europe’s Unitary Patent system draws one step nearer…
A (belated) Happy Standards Day!
Indian competition authority gets in on the IP action
On 16 September 2014, the Commission published a decision to establish a group of experts on...
On 16 September 2014, the Commission published a decision to establish a group of experts on the enforcement of IP rights (the ‘Decision’). The background to the Decision highlights the Commission’s position on the impor...
It has been a little while since we have published on the Technology Transfer Block Exemptio...
It has been a little while since we have published on the Technology Transfer Block Exemption on this blog (our la...
Huawei v ZTE: will the CJEU be first past the post on SEP policy….?
The CJEU serves up a little common sense in Cartes Bancaires?
“…hard cases make bad law …” – round table discussion on Intellectual Property and Competition
Nespresso finalises its competition commitments in France – but at what price for innovation?
Earlier this year I posted a blog relating to competition innovation and intellectual proper...
Earlier this year I posted a blog relating to competition innovation and intellectual property rights. One of the things I noted was that there is some debate about the extent to which intellectual property rights actually stimulate...
Many of our pharma-themed blog posts have focused on the actions that European and US regula...
Many of our pharma-themed blog posts have focused on the actions that European and US regulators have been taking ...
The CMA’s plan for IP
Year of the Phoenix (aka EU/US competition cases reigniting in China)
Care’-ful with know-how and trade marks
Competition, innovation and DG Comp – in the mainstream press (or at least the Wall Street Journal)
Earlier this month, I attended an interesting lecture at the Law Society given by Mr Justice...
Earlier this month, I attended an interesting lecture at the Law Society given by Mr Justice Roth, President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The lecture dealt with the current reforms to private competition litigation in ...
ZTE has this week announced that it has made a formal competition complaint to the European ...
ZTE has this week announced that it has made a formal competition complaint to the European Commission, asking it ...
Competition law issues in commercial contracts
Bifurcation at the UPC – competition policy squeezes and the scope for trolls
Competition law & IP licensing agreements
Recent developments in the TMT sector and competition law
As per our tagline, The CLIP Board is intended to be a blog covering anything and everything...
As per our tagline, The CLIP Board is intended to be a blog covering anything and everything on the competition law/IP interface, and not just the TTBE… So returning to other issues, I spotted last week that Reckitt Benckiser has ag...
Reviewing the new TTBER and accompanying Guidelines in their first week in effect, two of us...
Reviewing the new TTBER and accompanying Guidelines in their first week in effect, two of us ended up having somet...
“Technological predation” – part II
Another collecting society has competition law concerns…
Predatory technology – a viable antitrust concept?
Online advertising restrictions in the spotlight again
Before it disappeared into the wide blue yonder, the OFT published its merger decision in th...
Before it disappeared into the wide blue yonder, the OFT published its merger decision in the acquisition by IP Group plc (IPG) of Fusion IP plc (Fusion). There aren’t all that many UK merger decisions in which IP rights are the ce...
Many AG opinions are just a forgettable ‘entremet’ between the General Court hors d’oeuvre a...
Many AG opinions are just a forgettable ‘entremet’ between the General Court hors d’oeuvre and the main course off...
US judge questions illegality of seeking an injunction
BREAKING NEWS – New EU Technology Transfer Regulation and Guidelines
Pay-for-delay: an article on recent-ish developments
The FRAND debate: is the tide turning?
I was interested to read elsewhere in the blogosphere about a current US antitrust case conc...
I was interested to read elsewhere in the blogosphere about a current US antitrust case concerning the selection of technology by standard-setting organisations. A guest post by Burt Braverman on the IP Vancouver blog reports on Tr...
The competition law points of interest are highlighted below, but it’s worth beginning with ...
The competition law points of interest are highlighted below, but it’s worth beginning with the usual summary of f...
Competition, innovation and IP – a modest proposal
Divisive divisionals – more on the Consiglio di Stato Pfizer judgment
Global convergence on pharma deals close to patent expiry
Consiglio di Stato reinstates Pfizer €10.7 million Xalatan/latanoprost fine
With typical rapidity (ahem), the full text of the Commission merger decision in Teva/Cephal...
With typical rapidity (ahem), the full text of the Commission merger decision in Teva/Cephalon has been published two years and four months after it was notified to the parties. While the main decision – authorisation of the merger ...
The patent dispute between HTC and Nokia (which recently settled – days before the ITC...
The patent dispute between HTC and Nokia (which recently settled – days before the ITC was due to rule on th...
Technology transfer licensing, Patents, TMT, Pharma
Technology licensing: adapting to the EU’s new regime – update
Last orders at the OFT…..
Elevated liability for cartelists?
Last year the French Competition Authority (FCA) issued a decision fining Sanofi-Aventis for...
Last year the French Competition Authority (FCA) issued a decision fining Sanofi-Aventis for abusing a dominant position in relation to its Plavix product. Sanofi-Aventis was found to have denigrated generic competitors of Plavix i...
Google bought Motorola in 2012 and paid an astounding $12.5 billion. At the time of sale, M...
Google bought Motorola in 2012 and paid an astounding $12.5 billion. At the time of sale, Motorola had $3 billion...
Actavis leaves scope for dissent
Litigation update
Reckitt Benckiser still suffering competition law heartache in the UK
Developments in the CC’s private healthcare market investigation in the UK
In August 2013, the OFT issued its decision in the Roma-branded Mobility Scooters case. Thi...
In August 2013, the OFT issued its decision in the Roma-branded Mobility Scooters case. This arose from an OFT investigation into arrangements between Roma and its distributors that were designed to restrict the availability of cer...
The European Commission announced today that it has launched a formal antitrust investigatio...
The European Commission announced today that it has launched a formal antitrust investigation into cross-border pa...
New paper on ‘Injunctions for FRAND-pledged SEPs: the quest for an appropriate test of abuse under Article 102’
Practice notes to note …
Online (r)evolution: Bosch boshed by the Bundeskartellamt
On line (r)evolution? The prospects for selective distribution in an internet future
The pharmaceutical sector has been the subject of considerable scrutiny in France following ...
The pharmaceutical sector has been the subject of considerable scrutiny in France following the initiation of a sector inquiry in February 2013. This led to a public consultation entitled “How to revitalise competition in the...
Intellectual Ventures – arguably the world’s most infamous NPE with around 70,000 IP assets ...
Intellectual Ventures – arguably the world’s most infamous NPE with around 70,000 IP assets – has developed its ow...
CC investigation: private motor insurance & MFNs
A step closer to consensus on the availability of injunctive relief for an SEP?
The General Court dismissed appeal against Commission’s approval of Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype
Tough times ahead for patent trolls in the US as Innovation Act is passed by House of Representatives
The 4th annual report on the Commission’s pharma patent monitoring exercise was published ye...
The 4th annual report on the Commission’s pharma patent monitoring exercise was published yesterday (here). The relative numbers of the different types of settlements (those which the Commission regards as non-problematic vs. those...
Competition policy and its relationship with IP is the regulators’ topic of the moment. EU C...
Competition policy and its relationship with IP is the regulators’ topic of the moment. EU Commissioner Almunia ch...
How efficient is the Commission at making decisions under Article 101 (3)?
Commission turns its attention to online sales
Another front in the telecoms ‘patent wars’: a novel type of antitrust complaint
The Commission clears Microsoft/Nokia merger
At the IBC Standards and Patent Conference in London on Wednesday (4 December) there were he...
At the IBC Standards and Patent Conference in London on Wednesday (4 December) there were heated debates about FRAND and SEPs, as you would expect, with plenty of comment from industry ( including Microsoft, Philips, Nokia, Qualcomm...
A recent Chinese appeal court’s ruling is likely to have made quite an impression on t...
A recent Chinese appeal court’s ruling is likely to have made quite an impression on those responsible for t...
EU authorities coordinate in bringing investigations against Amazon to a close
High Court grants injunctions against Barclays in a non-FRAND competition case
Virgin v Zodiac – what implications for the pharma sector?
Here cometh the CMA …
A recent High Court decision clarifies the circumstances in which the Court will compel phar...
A recent High Court decision clarifies the circumstances in which the Court will compel pharmaceutical companies to supply third parties. Cases of this sort are likely to become more frequent when government proposals for ‘fast tra...
Grocery retailing has undergone revolutionary change over the last few decades. As the trad...
Grocery retailing has undergone revolutionary change over the last few decades. As the traditional quartet of the...
US eBooks judgment: a view from across the Atlantic
Maximising privilege in competition law matters
