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Draft issued for solicitation of comments to revise the state council regulations on internet information services

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • China
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  • September 10 2012

It is difficult to give a sense of the extent to which the Internet has changed the lives of Chinese people across the nation since September 1987, when China first became connected to the Internet

Technology: bundling software products will China follow microsoft?

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • China, European Union
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  • July 16 2012

In April this year, a Chinese court began hearing a case of anti-competitive practices in the software market which bears striking resemblances to the European Commission’s case against Microsoft a decade ago

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

An RMB 150-million litigation in China for the abuse of a dominant market position

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • China
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  • April 24 2012

Recently, the High People’s Court of Guangdong held a public hearing for a high-profile lawsuit involving two software giants and alleged abuse of a dominant market position

Regulator imposes further conditions on Western DigitalViviti deal

  • Grandall Law Firm
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  • China
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  • March 29 2012

Three months after imposing conditions on Seagate's acquisition of Samsung's hard drive business, the Ministry of Commerce has published another conditional clearance of a concentration in the hard disk industry, this time involving Western Digital and Viviti Technologies

New regulations targeting unfair competition and data protection in the Internet sector in China

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • China, USA
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  • March 1 2012

On December 29, 2011, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") promulgated the "Certain Provisions on the Regulation of the Market for Internet Information Services" (the "Provisions"), which will come into effect on March 15, 2012

New rules on curbing internet services abuses

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • China
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  • February 17 2012

The Several Provisions on Regulating the Order of the Internet Information Service Market (“Provisions”) issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) of the PRC will come into force on 15 March 2012

MOFCOM’s conditional approval for SeagateSamsung's merger

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • China
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  • January 19 2012

Companies engaged in M&A transactions involving the Chinese market will need to take into account that the Chinese anti-trust regulator MOFCOM is increasingly taking decisions that deviate from the positions taken by other anti-trust regulators

China conditionally approves seagate acquisition of Samsung hard drive business

  • Jones Day
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  • China, USA
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  • January 11 2012

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has approved Seagate's acquisition of the hard drive disk division of Samsung Electronics ("Samsung HDD") under China's Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML"), but imposed conditions to ensure that Samsung, although controlled by Seagate, remains an independent competitor

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • China, USA
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  • August 1 2011

On July 27, 2011, the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice announced that they signed an antitrust memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China’s three antitrust agencies to “promote communication and cooperation among the agencies in the two countries.”