Monday, November 10, 2008
Merger Policy Amid Financial Crises
Lloyds/HBOS Merger cleared by the UK Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in spite of the competition concerns expressed by the Office of Fair Trading.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Interdiction de vente sur Internet des produits cosmétiques et d’hygiène corporelle sanctionnée
Selon le Conseil de la Concurrence, Décision n° 08-D-25 du 29 octobre 2008, "bien que la pratique d’interdiction de vente par Internet ne soit pas expressément visée dans le règlement communautaire, elle équivaut... à une interdiction de ventes actives et passives. En conséquence, pratiquée au sein d’un réseau de distribution sélective, elle constitue, en vertu du c) de l’article 4 du règlement une restriction caractérisée", et ne peut pas bénéficier d’une exemption individuelle sur le fondement du paragraphe 3 de l’article 81 du traité.
"New" Eligibility Criteria for Software Patents in the U.S.?
According to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Bernard L.Bilski and Rand A.Warsaw, the language of Sec. 101 precludes protection of innovation which is not "transformational" or "properly linked to a machine". In the meanwhile, back in Europe, the President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow, refers to the Enlarged Court of Appeal a socalled point of law comprising four questions concerning the limits of patentability in the field of computing.
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Video here . Thank you for asking, Robin. This is my short answer but happy to discuss it further. Concerning the very few words I loved ...
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Disclosure : for 7 months covering Maria Luisa (Isa) Stasi’s leave, I had the honour of working with Article 19 and contributed to a civil s...
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From LinkedIn, here . "Die Stiftung Marktwirtschaft gedenkt heute an die vor einem Jahr verstorbene Wettbewerbsjuristin Heike Sc...
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From the DMA Team, on the only platform (US, ça va sans dire) they really feel at ease, apparently: here. My answer to the riddle: "E...
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Obviously, I don’t have the answer. If you're waiting for antitrust to step in (is it exploitative behaviour? bundling? is there ...
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EDPS, Video here. I’ve watched almost all of it, but in terms of substance it was rather thin. Von der Leyen I's data economy strate...
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Re:publica 25, hier.