Jul 04, 2023 Competition authorities can assess GDPR violations By Matthew Hunt The Bundeskartellamt vs. Facebook saga has now been rumbling on for several years. As a reminder, the case relates to the German...
Jun 29, 2023 The CMA puts AI under the microscope By Sophie Lawrance Charlie Hawes Antonia Kendrick The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently consulted on its decision to carry out an initial review of the AI market. The CMA...
May 15, 2023 UK consumer law proposals under The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill By Alice Esuola-Grant Elisa Lindemann Consumer protection and competition lawyers alike have been waiting with bated breath for the long anticipated updates to the UK’s...
Apr 03, 2023 Apple's challenge of CMA's mobile browsers / cloud gaming investigation bears fruit By Matthew Hunt Back in January I summarised the procedural challenge Apple had made against the CMA's decision to carry out a market investigation into...
Mar 16, 2023 Trends in digital health: Competition law and the use and abuse of data By Sophie Lawrance Edwin Bond This article is the third in our "Trends in digital health" series. From wearable devices that detect diseases to new platforms for...
Feb 21, 2023 The potential for antitrust fines involving algorithms & AI By Matthew Hunt Almost 6 years ago, we wrote a blog post querying whether pricing algorithms might be the European Commission's next antitrust target. ...
Jan 24, 2023 Apple seeks to block CMA’s cloud gaming market investigation By Matthew Hunt On Friday it emerged that Apple is challenging the CMA’s decision to carry out a market investigation into browsers and cloud gaming...
Dec 01, 2022 Market definition enters a new era By Sophie Lawrance The European Commission has published its new draft Notice on definition of the relevant market. Far from being a dry and dusty read,...
Nov 07, 2022 The metaverse and the law – an article series By Bristows Lawyers Over the past seven weeks or so, we have released fourteen articles which discuss a variety of real-world legal issues and how they might...
Oct 28, 2022 Optis v Apple: Court of Appeal examines clause 6.1 of the ETSI IPR Policy By Luke Maunder If you've followed the Optis & others v Apple saga, you must have seen the judgment handed yesterday by the Court of Appeal, about the...
Oct 19, 2022 Diagnosis and prognosis – tech competition class actions in the UK By Sophie Lawrance I had the opportunity to speak earlier this week in Brussels at Informa's Competition Law in the Digital Era conference, in a panel...
Oct 12, 2022 Competition in digital ecosystems: the Google Android judgment By Sean-Paul Brankin In the Google Android judgment of 14 September 2022, the EU General Court addresses the treatment of competition in and between digital...