Lexology PRO | European Union, France | 22 Jul 2021
Orange and its rival SFR have settled a follow-on damages dispute in France after the country’s antitrust authority fined the former €350 million in 2015 for discriminatory practices in the mobile and fixed-line telecommunications markets.
Lexology PRO | France | 7 Jul 2021
France’s Competition Authority has launched a public consultation to determine if co-working spaces occupy a distinct market, as it examines a proposed joint venture between the state’s investment arm and a private equity group.
Lexology PRO | European Union, France, United Kingdom | 22 Jun 2021
The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into whether Google anticompetitively favours its own services in the digital advertising sector.
Lexology PRO |
European Union, Germany, OECD, etc. | 14 Jun 2021
The UK’s chief competition economist has rejected an assertion from a Facebook official that proposed regulation of digital platforms in Europe could decrease consumer welfare.
Lexology PRO | Belgium, European Union, France | 7 Jun 2021
Google has agreed to pay €220 million and change the way it organises digital advertising auctions to settle the French antitrust enforcer’s allegations that it unlawfully favours its own services in the sector.
Lexology PRO | European Union, France | 3 Jun 2021
Facebook has committed to preserve the accessibility and transparency of its online advertising services in a bid to end an abuse of dominance investigation by France’s Competition Authority.
Stikeman Elliott LLP | Canada, European Union, United Kingdom | 28 Jan 2019
Au cours des dernières années, les « mégadonnées » ont occupé une place prépondérante dans la politique en matière de Concurrence et d’antitrust. Ces…
Hogan Lovells | Germany | 9 Jul 2018
Preisalgorithmen sind gegenwärtig der “talk of the town” in der Kartellrechts-Community. Jüngstes Beispiel ist das am 3. Juli 2018 erschienene 22…
Wanhuida Intellectual Property | China, Global | 2 Jul 2018
The legislature had been planning the recent amendments to the Anti-unfair Competition Law since China's accession to the World Trade Organisation. During the four drafts that followed, substantial changes were made concerning important issues such as the theft of trade secrets. However, as regards the principles set out in Article 10bis of the Paris Convention, most of the main concepts and......
Wilhelm & Associes | European Union | 17 Apr 2018
La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne saisie sur question préjudicielle, dans l’affaire communément appelée « Coty », a estimé que la clause par…