Opérations de visite et saisie inopinées dans le secteur de la fabrication et la distribution des sandwichs

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Experiments in Intellectual Property

C. Buccafusco, C. Sprigman, here.

"Inventing a new pharmaceutical or producing a movie takes years of intellectual effort. The creativity that researchers can study in the laboratory, however, may involve minutes or even seconds".

General Court’s pay for delay judgment in Lundbeck – some guidance, but worries remain

S. Gallasch, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: The Economic and Policy Implications

S. Athey, Video here. 

The Commission’s proposed TDM exception: Who’s to benefit?

M. Caspers, here. 

Data Ownership and Access to Data

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Position Statement, here. 

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People: Implementation Guidance

The White House, here.

EU court confirms Thomson Reuters coding settlement

...Reuters, here.

T-76/14, here.

An Antitrust Review of a Bayer-Monsanto Merger

A. Grunes, M. Stucke, here.

FTC Approves Final Order Preserving Competition in Markets for 79 Pharmaceutical Products

FTC, here.

Fusion hängt von Bayers Bereitschaft zu Zugeständnissen ab

WiWo, hier. 

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People

The White House, Executive Order, here.
Also "White House Summit on Behavioral Science Insights", here (live soon)

Anti-Surge Pricing

UN High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines Issues “Landmark” Report

IP-watch, here.

Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines

Here.

New EU Telco Rules

Arstechnica, here.

Competition and the Digital Single Market

M. Vestager, here.

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Preliminary Report

Press Release, here. Fact sheet here. Preliminary Report here.

Digital content:
- "the information provided during the sector inquiry... shows that multiple business models and a great diversity of licensing practices are available and indeed used, which can cater for the needs of both right holders and digital content providers";
-"Little substantive evidence was provided on the importance of pre-sale arrangements to fund new products by respondents, in relation to the products included in the sector inquiry."

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Second Batch of Results

EC press conference by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, 15 September 16.30h, here (not live bc of satellite technical problems...).

"If it is agreements between companies that are restricting e-commerce across Europe’s national borders, then you can expect competition enforcement to follow", speech, 11.09.2015.

My personal "highlights" (from today's press conference):

- investigation into online video games and geo-blocking still ongoing;

- E-commerce sector inquiry and pay-tv case "very, very distant relatives": former much broader (more "generic"), considering also consumer goods where there are ("obviously") the same restrictions but many more (I´d add that, with regard to digital content, restrictions in the licensing agreements well beyond geo-blocking have been identified by the EC);

- E-commerce sector inquiry as a source of information for the legislator (possibly, copyright - and geo-blocking regulation).

Bookatable-Reaktion auf Kartellrechtsbeschwerde

Ahgz.de, hier.

"Role of publishers" and Panorama exception: Synopsis Reports and Contributions

Here.

Bayer and Monsanto to Create a Global Leader in Agriculture

Bayer, here.

"Bayer has committed to a USD 2 billion reverse antitrust break fee, reaffirming its confidence that it will obtain the necessary regulatory approvals".

DSM Copyright: Impact Assessment

Part I, Part II, Part III.

Marrakesh Treaty: EU Implementation Package

Regulation, here. Directive, here.

Proposal for a directive on copyright in the digital single market

Here.

Facebook Probe in Antitrust and Privacy Gray Zone, Vestager Says

Bloomberg, here.

GC Judgment in Case T-472/13, Lundbeck v Commission: on patents and Schrödinger’s cat

P. Ibanez Colomo, here.

DSM proposals (copyright)

14 September, at 15.15h, live here. 

TableDennis.de lässt Mitbewerber vom Bundeskartellamt überprüfen

Eturbonews.de, hier. 

Uber's antitrust win in Uruguay

Asunto n°4/2016, aquì.

FRAND Arbitration: The Determination of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Rates for SEPs by Arbitral Tribunals

D. Geradin, here

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder gegen Fernsehstudiobetreiber

Fallbericht, hier.

How big business jammed the wheels of innovation

TheAtlantic, here. 

Lundbeck Loses Appeal Against ‘Pay-For-Delay’ Decision

Covington, here. 

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

NYTimes, here.

Facebook muss vor den EuGH: OGH legt „Datenschutz-Sammelklage“ vor

M. Schrems, Hier. 

Pokémon Go, quel est ton algorithme ?

N. Devillier, Ici.

Making data work for us

M. Vestager, here.

Staying ahead in a digital marketplace

A. Coscelli, here.

The Veil

P. Gabriel, here.

GC: Lundbeck confirmed

T‑472/13, here.
"The ‘scope of the patent’ test is...based on a subjective assessment, by the applicants, of the scope of their patents and of their validity, whereas a national court or competent authority may have taken a different view" (491).

CJEU GS Media on hyperlinking

C 160/15, here.

AG Øe on art. 9 infoSoc

Case C‑275/15, here.

AG Wahl on EU competence re Marrakech Treaty

Opinion procedure 3/15, here.

Protection des données dès la conception : le cas de la géolocalisation des appareils

Linc, ici.

Allergan CEO disavows 'predatory pricing'

BioPharmaDive, here.

Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream

Freakeconomics Podcast, here.

Geo-blocking in licence agreement: Whether to block access to digital content infringe EU competition rules

I. Gundem, here.

Comment l’impression 3D peut révolutionner le sport paralympique

Numerama, ici.

US tycoon John Malone is set to pay £6.4bn for Formula One

TheGuardian, here.

With Occupancy High, Hotels Seek to Avoid Online Booking Services

NYTimes, here. 

Wissenschaft hat ihren Preis

J. Haucap, hier.

Antitrust and Regulating Big Data

D. Sokol, R. Comerford, here. 

Competition in evolving communications markets: Issues Paper

ACCC, here.

“Big Data” Goes to the Movies: Revealing latent similarity among movies and its effect on box office performance

B. Barbosu, here.

Big Data and the Entertainment Industry

J. Gans, here.

Oettinger verteidigt Vorstoß für EU-Leistungsschutzrecht

FAZ, hier.

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

B. Edelman, D. Geradin, here.

Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store.

NYTimes, here.

How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

NYTimes, here.

Popper en Moyo Island

M. Vargas Llosa, aquì.

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?

Nautilus, here.

Creative Commons Wants To Step Into Lawsuit Over Definition Of 'Noncommercial' In A CC License

TechDirt, here.

Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so

SearchEngineLand, here.

ICANN’s globalization creates peril and promise

TechCrunch, here.

CCI rejects ‘predatory pricing’ allegations against Ola

IndianExpress, here.

Nintendo’s DMCA-backed quest against online fan games

ArsTechnica, here.

Should You Become a Platform?

M. Van Alstyne and M. Jamison, here (p.30 ff.).

Chatbots are a creation channel for storytelling

VentureBeat, here.

Apple, Ireland and the Spanish connection

rte.ie, here.

EC on Pokémon Go and data protection

Here.

Ein "Reinheitsgebot für ehrliche und vertrauenswürdige Internetdienste".

Heise.de, hier.

EU-Kommission überprüft WhatsApp-Übernahme durch Facebook

Focus.de, hier.

One Step Forward, No Steps Back: National Ratification Needs to Respect the Objectives of the Treaty of Marrakesh

IFLA, here.

Sans données, le futur de l’IA restera artificiel

LINC, ici. 

Cheating In Gaming: Will Copyright Laws Level Up?

Forbes, here.

Expedia and Bookings.com now have to compete on hotel rates: ACCC

Smh.com, here.
See also here.

"The cheaper hotels can [now] put a billboard out the front saying 'rooms at this rate' "

The Simple Solution to Traffic

Grey, here. 

Hollywood studios, football leagues urge EU rethink on copyright

Reuters, here. See also here.

China’s anti-trust regulators are investigating the Didi-Uber deal

TechCrunch, here.

Niantic responds to Senate inquiry into Pokémon Go privacy

TechCrunch, here.
Letter here.

AI Wants to Be Your Bro, Not Your Foe

MIT Technology Review, here.
One Hundred Year Study 2016 here.

Development of the audiovisual markets and creation of original contents

Lear for Mediaset, here. 

Entgelt für Online-Übermittlung von Tickets ist unzulässig

Heise.de, hier. 

Elsevier’s New Patent for Online Peer Review Throws a Scare Into Open-Source Advocates

Chronicle, here. 

Visa seeks bank volunteers for blockchain-based payment trial

Finextra, here.

Maybe you don’t have as much choice as you think

TheGuardian, here. 

Online tool allows users to inspect banks’ privacy notices

iapp, here. 

Neue Regelungen im BuchPrG zur Preisbindung von E-Books und zur grenzüberschreitenden Preisbindung

Preisbindungsgesetz.de, hier. 

DoJ Sues to Block Deere’s Acquisition of Precision Planting

PR, here.

Companies are making money from our personal data – but at what cost?

TheGuardian, here. 

More EU copyright "leaks"

Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, here.
Draft Communication: Promoting a fair and efficient European copyright-based economy in the Digital Single Market, here.

Still to come:
Directive and Regulation to ensure EU implementation of the Marrakech Treaty.

Big Data Is Nudging You

PsychologyToday, here.

Quand Pokémon Go inquiète l’armée française

Numerama, ici.

Frank Ocean, Apple Music, And The Headache Of Streaming Exclusives

FastCompany, here.

Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and the Rule of Law: Between Private Power and State Power

A. Katz, here.

Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley’s ‘free’ apps a free pass?

J. Newman, here.

Apple's EU tax dispute explained

FT, here.

BEREC publishes guidelines on net neutrality

PR, here. See also consultation report, here.

Big Data comes with all the biases of its creators

Time, here.