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European court ruling on copyright royalties
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- European Union, Sweden
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- January 23 2009
The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has issued an important judgment in December 2008 on excessive and discriminatory pricing issues in respect of copyright royalties by a copyright collection society STIM, on a reference from the Swedish courts under Article 234 EC on a claim by the commercial broadcasters Kanal 5 Limited and TV4 AB
Commission market tests commitments from CISAC and 18 EEA collecting societies concerning reciprocal representation contracts
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- European Union
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- July 12 2007
The Commission has invited comments from interested parties on commitments proposed by CISAC (International Confederation of Authors & Composers Societies) and 18 collecting societies, designed to meet the concerns raised in the Commission's Statement of Objections of January 2006
OFT accepts licensing of intellectual property rights as a suitable merger remedy and approves “upfront” purchaser
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- United Kingdom
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- March 26 2007
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has accepted undertakings by the Tetra Laval Group to licence intellectual property rights in cheese-making equipment as a suitable merger remedy in lieu of a reference to the Competition Commission under section 73 of the Enterprise Act 2002
Swedish Market Court makes ECJ reference about collecting society tariffs for music in television broadcasts
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- European Union, Sweden
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- March 26 2007
The Swedish Market Court, the court of final instance in cases brought under the Competition Act, has for the first time decided to make a reference to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a preliminary ruling
Electronics, patent - pooling and competition
- Bird & Bird
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- European Union
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- April 3 2007
Innovation in a maturing industry, such as electronics, is fraught with challenges
Rambus resurgent
- Bird & Bird
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- European Union, USA
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- June 2 2008
In the past few years, the European Courts have had to consider closely the issues raised by standardisation in the field of mobile telecommunications, but the first headlines on the subject in the sector actually related to standards at the more fundamental level of solid state memory designs
European Court of First Instance upholds infringement findings against Microsoft
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- European Union
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- 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
Swedish Market Court dismisses claim in internet deep linking case
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- Sweden
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- February 21 2007
This article concerns the recent Swedish Market Court decision to dismiss a claim against a “buy and sell-site” for deep linking to adverts on a competing site and permitting the use of a competitor’s name as a Google keyword
Local judgment with an international economic approach - new German case law on the FRAND defence in patent litigation
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- Germany
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- April 2 2009
With a series of decisions of 11 September 2008, the highly regarded Regional Court Düsseldorf has further specified the so-called FRAND defence in an international patent case in the electronics sector
Commission pharma sector enquiry and initiation of formal proceedings against Servier and others
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- European Union
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- July 17 2009
On 8 July 2009, as this update was being finalised, the European Commission published its final report on its inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector
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