The French Commercial Supreme Court quashes the Court of Appeal decision in the iPhone case without any practical effect (Orange / Apple / France Télécom)

Vogel, Joseph

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16 Feb 2010

The French Commercial Supreme Court quashes the Court of Appeal decision in the iPhone case without any practical effect (Orange / Apple / France Télécom)

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Commercial Supreme Court, Cases n° 09-11968 and 09-65440, France Télécom and Orange / Apple Sales International and Apple Inc (iPhone), 16 February 2010

The Court of Cassation has quashed and annulled the decision by which the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the order for interim measures - which are very unusual - leading to the suspension of Orange's exclusive deal to market the iPhone [1]. According to the Court of Appeal, exclusive agreements between the iPhone manufacturer and a pre-eminently positioned network operator on the mobile telephony services market are such as to seriously harm a market that already suffers a competitive deficit and

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Joseph Vogel
Vogel & Vogel (Paris)

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Joseph Vogel, The French Commercial Supreme Court quashes the Court of Appeal decision in the iPhone case without any practical effect (Orange / Apple / France Télécom), 16 February 2010, e-Competitions February 2010, Art. N° 30917

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