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Court upholds fine on Microsoft for abuse of market dominance

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • September 17 2007

Following a 1998 competitor complaint about Microsoft’s refusal to supply certain interoperability information, the European Commission opened an investigation and later extended it to cover allegations of software bundling

Court of First Instance upholds Commission's decision in Microsoft case

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • October 8 2007

On September 17, 2007, the European Court of First Instance largely dismissed Microsoft’s appeal and upheld the main pillars of the European Commission’s decision that Microsoft had abused its dominant position

Microsoft ordered to pay record fine for EC competition law violations

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2008

On February 27, 2008, the European Commission ordered Microsoft to pay a record 899 million penalty for failing to implement remedial measures imposed in 2004 to address conduct that the Commission had found to be an abuse of dominant position

Microsoft's appeal loss alarms dominant tech companies

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • October 8 2007

As reported in detail in our earlier Bulletin the EU Court of First Instance in September upheld the EU Commission ruling that Microsoft had contravened competition laws

Commission ruling against Microsoft upheld

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
  • -
  • October 23 2007

The European Court of First Instance has upheld a 2004 European Commission decision against Microsoft

The Court of First Instance essentially upholds the Commission's decision finding that Microsoft abused its dominant position

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
  • -
  • October 31 2007

The Court considers that the Commission was correct to conclude that the work group server operating systems of Microsoft's competitors must be able to interoperate with Windows domain architecture on an equal footing with Windows operating systems if they are to be capable of being marketed viably

European Court of First Instance upholds infringement findings against Microsoft

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
  • -
  • October 30 2007

On 17 September 2007, the European Court of First Instance (“ECFI”) issued its judgment reviewing in detail, and substantively upholding, the European Commission’s 2004 decision which had imposed a fine of 497 million on Microsoft for two abuses of dominant position

European Commission publishes decision fining Intel EUR 1.06 billion for abusing its dominant position

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
  • -
  • September 28 2009

In this important case, involving conditional rebates and unilateral restrictive practices, the Commission fined Intel EUR1.06 billion - the largest fine ever assessed on a single company

CFI backs Commission in Microsoft case

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • February 29 2008

The European Court of First Instance (CFI) recently upheld the decision of the European Commission, taken in 2004, to fine the Microsoft Corporation a total of EUR 497 million for abuse of its dominant position in the market for work group server operating systems and streaming media players

Review of 2009 and preview of 2010

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 15 2010

The transition from 2009 to 2010 sees some significant legislative chapters closing, notably the Companies Act 2006, Rome I and II, the Banking Act 2009 and the Lisbon Treaty