Miguel Angel Pena Castellot

"Commission adopts Decision in the Microsoft case"* 1. Introduction On March 24 2004, the Commission concluded its Microsoft investigation by way of a formal Decision. This brought to an end proceedings which had lasted just over five years. The Commission found that Microsoft had abused its (...)

Commission settles allegations of abuse and clears patent pools in the CD market 1. The complaints Several manufacturers of pre-recorded CD discs (that is CD discs that include already content – music or software – provided by content-owners) lodged complaints against Philips and Sony a number (...)

"Commission fines Nintendo and seven of its European distributors for colluding to prevent parallel trade in Nintendo products"* 1. Introduction The Commission Decision commented here concerns the distribution of Nintendo manufactured game consoles (the NES and SNES static consoles, that were (...)

"The Commission formally rejects two complaints in the electronic monitoring services field"* 1. The complaints On 19 November 2001 (‘the first complaint’) and 1 July 2002 (‘the second complaint’) respectively, the UK-based firm On Guard Plus Ltd. (“OGPL”) filed complaints against the Israel-based (...)