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7 Jun 2019

The German Competition Authority announces the withdrawal of a merger notification between companies in the information technology sector (IBM / T-Systems)

German Competition Authority • June 2019

IBM withdraws notification of its acquisition of staff, hardware and software from T- Systems’ mainframe business after the Bundeskartellamt expressed concerns* Bonn, 7 June 2019: IBM Deutschland GmbH, Ehningen, has withdrawn its notification of plans to acquire essential hard and software as (...)

22 May 2019

The French Competition Authority fines a company for obstructing the conduct of inspections in the sectors of engineering and technology consulting, IT services and software publishing (Akka technologies)

French Competition Authority • June 2019

Engineering, IT services and software oublishing* The Akka technologies Group is fined a total of 900 000 euros for obstructing the conduct of inspections made by the Autorité On 8 November 2018, the Autorité de la concurrence have raided the premises of companies and organisations in the (...)

22 mai 2019

OVS : L’Autorité de la concurrence adopte sa première décision d’obstruction pour bris de scellés (Akka)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2019

Le 22 mai 2019, l’Autorité de la concurrence a adopté la décision n° 19-D-09 à la faveur de laquelle elle sanctionne pour la première fois des pratiques d’obstruction tenant à des bris de scellés et à l’altération du fonctionnement d’une messagerie lors d’opérations de visites et saisies (OVS). Les faits (...)

13 May 2019

The US Supreme Court rejects an attempt to block consumer claims against a big tech company under indirect-purchaser rule (Apple / Pepper)

Harrison J. McAvoy • June 2019

Apple v. Pepper: Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Consumer Claims Under Indirect-Purchaser Rule* The Supreme Court on Monday issued a much-anticipated decision in the Apple v. Pepper case, where iPhone owners are accusing Apple of monopolizing the retail market for iOS applications, or (...)

13 May 2019

The US Supreme Court holds that the claims of consumers purchasing apps from a big tech app store may proceed as they are direct purchasers of the big tech company (Apple / Pepper)

Thomas Barnett • June 2019

Appellate and Supreme Court On May 13, 2019, the Supreme Court (“the Court”) announced its 5-4 decision in Apple, Inc. v. Pepper, permitting iPhone users to proceed with an antitrust suit against Apple alleging that it monopolized the retail market for iPhone apps. The Court emphasized that it (...)

10 May 2019

The Mexican Competition Authority submits to public consultation the draft modifications to the guidelines for concentration notification via electronic means and the draft modifications of the regulatory provisions on the use of electronic means

Mexican Competition Authority • June 2019

COFECE submits for public consultation the modification to the Guidelines for Concentration Notification via Electronic Means and the Regulatory Provisions on the Use of Electronic Means* • The consultation period for the Guidelines is 30 working days, while the period for the Provisions is 20 (...)

18 Apr 2019

Discrimination and Rebates: An overview of EU and national case law

Maria Maher, Lorenzo Vasselli • Rebates

Rebates are a common commercial practice in business and can have efficiency enhancing effects, leading to lower overall prices for customers and consumers. In addition, they might be used to stimulate downstream competition. However, rebates also have the potential to exclude rivals from a (...)

9 Apr 2019

The EU General Court dismisses appeal against Commission’s request for information (Qualcomm)

Martin Favart • April 2019

On 9 April 2019, the General Court (“GC”) dismissed the appeal lodged by Qualcomm against the Commission’s decision of 31 March 2017 requesting information in the context of an investigation against Qualcomm for alleged predatory pricing contrary to Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes a report on competition policy in the digital era

Peter Broadhurst, Satyen Dhana, Nathdwarawala Shachi • April 2019

On 04 April 2019, the European Commission (EC) published a report commissioned by the EU’s Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager. The report looks at how competition policy should continue to evolve in the digital age and is written jointly by an economist, a lawyer and an engineer. The (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes final report on competition policy for the digital era

Martin Favart • April 2019

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published a special report commissioned by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on how competition policy should evolve to continue promoting pro-consumer innovation in the digital age (“Competition Policy for the Digital Era”). The report is grounded in three (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes a report on competition policy for the digital area

Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, Raphael Fleischer, Matthew Giles • April 2019

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published the much anticipated Report Competition Policy for the digital era (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). Authored by a panel of special advisers (all academics) appointed by Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, the Report explores (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes a report on competition policy for the digital era

James R. Modrall • June 2019

“Digital Era” Report Bolsters Commissioner Vestager’s Digital Legacy* On April 4, 2019, the European Commission published a report by Jacques Crémer, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, and Heike Schweitzer on competition policy for the digital era (the Digital Era Re port, or the Report), the culmination (...)

20 mars 2019

Dîner en l’honneur d’Isabelle de Silva, Présidente de l’Autorité de la concurrence

David Sevy, Isabelle de Silva, Yann Utzschneider

Dîner-débat organisé par la Revue Concurrences en l’honneur d’Isabelle de Silva, Présidente de l’Autorité de la concurrence, en partenariat avec White & Case et Compass Lexecon.

20 Mar 2019

The EU Commission conditionally approves a merger in the market for aircraft slat systems (Spirit / Asco)

Porter Elliott • March 2019

On 20 March 2019, the Commission conditionally approved the acquisition of Asco by Spirit. The Commission was concerned that the deal would reduce competition in the market for aircraft slat systems. These parts allow the wing of an aircraft to operate at a higher ‘angle of attack’, which (...)

19 Feb 2019

The French and German governments publish a joint manifesto calling for a new European industrial policy with changes to merger control and State aid rules

Martin Favart • February 2019

On 19 February 2019, the French Minister of Economy, Mr Bruno Le Marie, and the German Minister of Economy, Mr Peter Altmaier, published a joint manifesto which calls for the development of a European industrial policy to ensure the global competitiveness of European manufacturing industries. (...)

6 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority finds that merging of user data from multiple sources to be both anti-competitive and in breach of the GDPR (Facebook)

Caroline Henzell • February 2019

In one of the first decisions to consider data protection and competition issues side by side, the German competition regulator (the Bundeskartellamt) last week found that Facebook had both abused its market power in Germany and breached EU data protection laws in the way in which it collects (...)

1 Feb 2019

The implications of bitcoin for competition, antitrust, and regulation in the banking industry

Guillaume Duquesne, Karthik Balisagar, Miguel de la Mano, Renato Nazzini, Thomas P. Brown • N° 1-2019 • pp. 26-43

This series of articles explores the implications of blockhain for competition in the banking industry. Each of the articles takes a slightly different perspective on the issue. The first explores whether existing antitrust doctrine is suitable for assessing the potential benefits and harms (...)

1^er févr. 2019

L’innovation prédatrice en droit de la concurrence. Analyses croisées en droit européen et nord-américain de la concurrence, Thibault SCHREPEL

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 1-2019 • p. 246

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

30 Jan 2019

The UK Court of Appeal confirms jurisdiction over a dispute over standard essential patents (Huawei / ZTE)

Peter L’Ecluse • January 2019

On 30 January 2019, the UK Court of Appeal issued a judgment in the case pitting Conversant Wireless against two telecommunications companies, Huawei and ZTE. In this case, Conversant was seeking injunctive relief and damages against both companies in relation to the alleged breaches of its (...)

18 Jan 2019

The Romanian Competition Authority fines a company operating in the retail market of IT products, home appliances and marketing via e-commerce platforms for gun jumping (Corsar Online)

Romanian Competition Authority • January 2019

The Competition Council sanctioned Corsar Online Srl with fines of 1.6 million lei * The Competition Council sanctioned the company Corsar Online SRL with fines of approximately 1.6 million lei for the implementation of a merger before being authorized by the Competition Authority. In the (...)

17 Jan 2019

Privacy and antitrust: An overview of EU and national case law

Giuseppe Colangelo • Privacy and antitrust

The emergence of multi-sided media platforms occurred in parallel with the success of business models that revolve around the collection and use of personal data, generating revenue from user-data-based profiling and advertising. Given that only some of the firms elaborating those profiles hold (...)

17 Jan 2019

The EU Commission hosts a conference to address the challenges of digitization for competition policy

Enrique Fayos, Pedro Callol • January 2019

“Shaping Competition Policy in the era of digitization”: The European Commission hosts a conference with academic and business leaders to address the challenges of digitization for competition policy. On 17 January 2019, the European Commission hosted an experts conference to address the (...)

1 Jan 2019

Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum The Antitrust Economics Treatment of Standard Essential Patents— the EU v. the US

Daniel Rubinfeld

121 The Antitrust Economics Treatment of Standard Essential Patents— the EU v. the US dAniel r ubinField * University of California, Berkeley and New York University Abstract This paper discusses antitrust economics issues underlying the EU and US treatment of the balance between the rights of (...)

1 Jan 2019

Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum New Challenges for Antimonopoly Regulation in the Digital Economy

255 New Challenges for Antimonopoly Regulation in the Digital Economy igor A rteMiev * Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation Abstract The Russian government pays special attention to the digitalisation of the global economy and the growing influence of transnational (...)

1 Jan 2019

Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum Data-Related Abuses in Competition Law

Gönenç Gürkaynak

293 Data-Related Abuses in Competition Law gönenç g ürKAynAK, e Sq.* Ali K AğAn U ҫAr ** ZEYNEP B UHARALI *** ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law Abstract This article examines data-related abuses in competition law within today’s datadriven economic world. There is no doubt that data has become an (...)

19 déc. 2018

Pratiques de prédation : Pratiques de prédation : La Cour d’appel de Paris confirme l’absence d’abus de position dominante, le seul exercice des droits de propriété intellectuelle tiré d’un brevet annulé un an plus tard ne pouvant pas caractériser celui-ci (Coyote System)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2019

Le 19 décembre 2018, la Chambre 5-4 de la Cour d’appel de Paris a rendu un fort intéressant arrêt, dans une affaire concernant la commercialisation, à l’origine de boîtiers avertisseurs radars, puis sous la pression des pouvoirs publics, à partir de 2011, de simple « outil d’assistance à la conduite (...)

19 Dec 2018

The Indian Competition Authority clears investment company’s acquisition of optionally convertible preferential stock in an engineering company, equivalent to 34.65% of common shares (Integral / Toyo Engineering)

Man Mohan Sharma • December 2018

Integral Corporation acquires optionally convertible preferential stock in Toyo engineering Corporation* The Commission, by way of order dated 19.12.2018, has approved the acquisition of optionally convertible preferential stock (without voting rights) of Toyo Engineering Corporation (...)

11 Dec 2018

The EU Commission clears a merger subject to remedies in the data security solutions market (Gemalto / Thales)

European Commission • December 2018

Mergers: Commission approves acquisition of Gemalto by Thales, subject to conditions* The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Gemalto by Thales. The approval is conditional on the divestment of Thales’ general purpose hardware security (...)

6 déc. 2018

Neutralité du net : L’Organe des régulateurs européens des communications électroniques adopte un avis relatif à l’application du règlement européen et de ses lignes directrices sur la neutralité du net (L’évaluation de l’application du règlement et des lignes directrices sur la neutralité du net)

Alexandre Martin, Orion Berg • N° 1-2019 • pp. 186-188

Le 6 décembre 2018, l’Organe des régulateurs européens des communications électroniques (ci-après “l’ORECE”) a adopté, après consultation des parties intéressées, un avis sur l’application du règlement (UE) 2015/2120 du Parlement et du Conseil établissant des mesures relatives à l’accès à un internet ouvert (...)

22 Nov 2018

Standard-Essential Patents and Competition Law: An Overview of EU and national case law

Emily Luken, Jay Jurata • Standard Essential Patents

The extent to which competition law has shaped developments and understandings of standard-essential patents (SEPs) has increased substantially over the past fifteen years. When e-Competitions began publishing, there were very few cases and agency enforcement actions on the topic. The (...)

9 Nov 2018

The French Competition Authority carries out unannounced inspections in the sectors of engineering and technology consulting, IT services and software publishing

French Competition Authority • November 2018

The General Rapporteur of the Autorité de la concurrence indicates that unannounced inspections have been carried out yesterday in the sectors of engineering and technology consulting, IT services and software publishing* Following authorization from the liberty and custody judge, the (...)

9 Nov 2018

The Indian Competition Authority opens investigation into abuse of dominance by processors manufacturer for not sharing manufacturing information with a server manufacturer (Velankani Electronics / Intel)

Man Mohan Sharma • November 2018

CCI directs investigation against Intel for abuse of dominant position* The CCI by way of order dated November 9, 2018 under section 26(1) of the Act, directed the DG to investigate Intel Corporation (the Opposite Party/ OP/Intel) for alleged abuse of dominant position in the market for (...)

1^er nov. 2018

Droit de la concurrence et droit de la compliance

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche • N° 4-2018 • pp. 1-4

Le droit de la compliance est une branche du droit nouvelle, encore en construction. L’on peut en avoir une “définition restreinte”, consistant à la concevoir comme l’obligation qu’ont les entreprises de donner à voir qu’elles se conforment en permanence et d’une façon active au Droit. L’on peut en (...)

1 Nov 2018

The relevance of supply-side substitutability for “Big data”

Georg Clemens, Mutlu Özcan • N° 4-2018

This paper emphasizes the importance of including supply-side substitution when assessing mergers in data-driven markets. A review of three merger decisions involving big data giants such as Facebook and Google reveals that competition authorities have so far neglected important aspects of (...)

1 Nov 2018

Connecting competition law standards to the Internet of things

Aymeric de Moncuit • N° 4-2018 • pp. 85-94

The advent of the Internet of Things will entail a new Internet revolution and bring about profound changes that will rival the first wave of Internet innovation. This paper explores the competition law implications raised by this upcoming revolution. Starting by discussing the merits of open (...)

24 Oct 2018

Towards more competition in high-tech markets? European perspectives

Adina Claici, Alexis Walckiers, Claus Kastberg Nielsen, Colin Raftery, David A. Higbee, Elvira Aliende Rodriguez, Iulian Stanciu, Jakob Hald, Jonas Hedman, Marie Goppelsroeder, Natalia Przystasz, Noémie Papp, Norbert Maier, Tommaso Valletti, Witte Wijsmuller

This 2nd edition of the Competition in high-tech markets half-day conference was organized by Concurrences Review, in partnership with Copenhagen Economics and Shearman & Sterling.

24 oct. 2018

Conflit de juridiction : La Cour de justice de l’Union europénne juge qu’une juridiction élue par une clause attributive de juridiction peut connaître des conséquences civiles de pratiques anticoncurrentielles ou de concurrence déloyale (Apple / MJA)

Frédéric Leclerc • N° 4-2018

Par l’arrêt sous commentaire, la CJUE braque une nouvelle fois le projecteur sur un aspect peu abordé du droit des PAC, à savoir leurs sanctions civiles, qui se traduisent on le sait par la nullité de la pratique incriminée, puis par l’engagement possible de la responsabilité civile des différents (...)

24 oct. 2018

Clause attributive de juridiction : La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne admet l’application d’une clause attributive de juridiction aux différends nés d’une infraction à l’article 102 TFUE même s’ils ne sont pas spécialement visés par la clause (Apple Sales International...)

Alexandre Lacresse • N° 1-2019 • pp. 168-169

En l’espèce, en 2002, un fournisseur avait conclu un contrat de revendeur agréé par lequel son partenaire s’engageait à distribuer ses produits de manière quasi exclusive. Cet accord comportait une clause attributive de juridiction “générale” au profit des juridictions irlandaises. En 2012, le (...)

24 Oct 2018

The EU Court of Justice rules on the applicability of contractual jurisdiction clauses in the context of abuse of a dominant position, ruling that some competition law violations are more contract related than others (Apple / MJA)

Simon Troch, Maria Turbasa • October 2018

With its judgment the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’) confirms its previous case law indicating that the criterium to determine whether a competition law violation is covered by a contractual jurisdiction clause is the existence of a ‘contractual link’, adding that this is the case even when such (...)

19 Oct 2018

The EU Commission clears a merger in the market of software development (Microsoft / Github)

European Commission • October 2018

Mergers: Commission approves acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft* The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft. The Commission concluded that effective competition in the relevant markets would continue and Microsoft would (...)

19 Oct 2018

Interoperability: The European Commission approves the acquisition of an open-source software development platform by a leading supplier of computer software (Microsoft / GitHub)

Ianis Girgenson • N° 1-2019 • p. 120

On 19 October 2018, the European Commission approved the acquisition of U.S. company GitHub by Microsoft Corporation. Both parties are active in the supply of software development and operations (“DevOps”) tools. GitHub is a popular hosting platform for software development. Developers can join (...)

4 Oct 2018

Merger control in the IT sector: An overview of EU and national case law

Adrien Alberini • IT & Mergers

Competition law, and merger control in particular, is a prime location to observe and participate in the evolution of the IT sector from a technology, economic and legal perspective. From Microsoft to Google through Oracle/Sun Microsystems, it has been a fantastic – and sometimes hectic – (...)

4 oct. 2018

Progiciel : La Commission d’examen des pratiques commerciales se prononce sur la conformité d’une pratique commerciale d’un fournisseur de progiciel aux dispositions de l’article L. 442-6 C. com. (Les pratiques commerciales d’un fournisseur de progiciel)

Valérie Durand • N° 1-2019 • pp. 109-110

La Commission d’examen des pratiques commerciales a été interrogée sur la conformité aux dispositions de l’article L. 442-6 C. com. d’une pratique commerciale consistant pour un fournisseur de progiciel à exiger de son client le paiement d’une redevance complémentaire sous la menace de cesser les (...)

26 Sep 2018

The EU Court of Justice partly upholds the judgement of the General Court in a cartel case but sends it back to reexamine the calculation of the fine (Infineon)

Richard Burton • September 2018

On 26 September 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) delivered two judgments on the appeals brought by Infineon and Philips against the General Court (“GC”)’s earlier judgments relating to the European Commission’s decision in Smart card chips cartel case. By way of background, (...)

26 sept. 2018

Compétence de pleine juridiction : La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne valide le contrôle de légalité opéré par le Tribunal de l’Union européenne limité à certains éléments de l’entente et critique, pour le même motif, le contrôle de proportionnalité de ce dernier sur le montant de l’amende (Infineon Technologies)

Alexandre Lacresse • N° 1-2019 • pp. 167-168

Cette affaire soulevait principalement deux questions procédurales : la première, sur l’intensité du contrôle de légalité que peut exercer le Tribunal sur les décisions de la Commission en matière de pratiques anticoncurrentielles et, la seconde, sur l’appréciation par ce dernier du montant de l’amende (...)

26 Sep 2018

The EU Court of Justice refers a case back to the General Court to reconsider the possibility of mitigating circumstances on the fine calculation (Infineon)

Jacques Buhart, Mai Muto, Philip Bentley • September 2018

CJEU REFERS SMART CARD CHIPS CARTEL CASE BACK TO GCEU, DISMISSES PHILIPS APPEAL On 26 September 2018, the CJEU considered that the GCEU had not taken into account certain possibly mitigating circumstances—namely the relatively small number of Infineon’s unlawful contacts with other cartel (...)

19 Sep 2018

The Turkish Competition Authority follows the European Commission’s footsteps in the search engines’ battles (Google / Yandex)

Bahadır Balkı • September 2018

The tech giant Google has been under the Turkish Competition Authority’s (“TCA”) scrutiny due to its practices in the market for licensable mobile operating systems and under the judicial review since July 2015. In September 2018, the TCA has finally released its short decision and imposed a fine (...)

1 Sep 2018

The availability of injunctive relief under EU and US law for FRAND-encumbered patents

Lara Rachidi • N° 3-2018 • pp. 205-210

Although seeking an injunction might be a legitimate tool, threatening a willing licensee with an injunction to extract excessive royalties can be abusive under competition law. In these cases, patentees abuse their market power by using injunctive remedies to avoid their FRAND commitment. Even (...)

1 Sep 2018

Blockchain: Mind the gap! Lessons learnt from the net neutrality debate and competition law related aspects

Falk Schöning, Myrto Tagara • N° 3-2018

Blockchain is one of the breakthrough technologies of our times and has already started to penetrate into various industries across the globe. Given the growing recent interest in big data, algorithms as well as net neutrality, it is conceivable that blockchain technology might attract (...)

1 Sep 2018

Riccardo FALCONI (Uber): Has digital economy disrupted competition law?

Riccardo Falconi, David Tayar, Katrin Schallenberg • N° 3-2018

Interview conducted by Katrin Schallenberg, Partner, Clifford Chance and David Tayar, Partner, Clifford Chance. Digital actors and platforms have been disrupting markets by bringing together innovation and scalability to unprecedented levels and by unlocking efficiencies in various sectors. (...)

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