3/27/2025 5:36:40 PM Working away: the CMA’s first infringement decision concerning labour markets By Antonia Kendrick Last week, the CMA closed two investigations concerning information exchange in labour markets for workers in the sports and non-sports...
3/24/2025 3:54:56 PM An Epic reload: Fortnite fires back at iOS in Brazil By Matthew Hunt Sze-Von Lam Epic Games is ‘dropping in’ to Brazil this July by bringing Fortnite to iOS through its very own app store. This comes after a recent...
3/14/2025 4:07:34 PM Tech Transfer rules review comes to the UK By Sophie Lawrance Hard on the heels of the European Commission initiation of a review of the 2014 Technology Transfer Block Exemption (TTBE) and Guidelines...
3/12/2025 3:59:08 PM Spreadex-Sporting Index: CMA requests that its own merger assessment be quashed given material errors By Sze-Von Lam Francion Brooks In an unexpected turn, the CMA requested that the CAT quash the CMA’s own decision in the assessment of the Spreadex-Sporting Index...
3/12/2025 11:03:08 AM Short-term FRAND licences - useful or not? By Sophie Lawrance At the end of February, the Court of Appeal rendered a second judgment (Lenovo v Ericsson [2025] EWCA 182) holding that a licensor of...
3/3/2025 2:40:21 PM Podcast: ‘Interim’ FRAND licences – the Court of Appeal judgment in Lenovo v Ericsson By James Boon Francion Brooks In this episode, James Boon joins Francion Brooks to discuss the latest Court of Appeal judgment in Lenovo v Ericsson granting a...
3/3/2025 9:57:39 AM Offside! CJEU judgment that finds FIFA transfer rules anti-competitive set to have major implications for the football transfer market By Stephen Smith Sean-Paul Brankin Iva Gobac This material was first published by Thomas Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in...
2/18/2025 10:43:51 AM Weather warning: CMA identifies competition issues in cloud services market By Iva Gobac Edwin Bond The CMA has provisionally found that competition may not be working effectively in the UK’s £9 billion cloud services market. Cloud...
2/5/2025 2:23:16 PM Technology Transfer block exemption review - what do tech and life sciences companies need to know? By Sophie Lawrance The Commission is taking its regular look at the competition rules and guidance applicable to technology licensing agreements, in advance...
12/17/2024 11:01:01 AM Competition in digital markets: comparing the approach across Europe By Francion Brooks The new digital markets competition regime in the UK, which applies to firms with ‘strategic market status’, will come into force on 1...
11/28/2024 2:44:14 PM DMCC digital markets competition regime comes into force on 1 Jan 2025 By Francion Brooks The DMCC Act introduces the most significant changes to competition law for over 20 years including a new digital markets competition...
11/26/2024 1:39:09 PM Is your use of pricing algorithms putting you at risk of competition investigation? By Francion Brooks The CMA recently posted a blog warning about the risks of pricing algorithms. Whilst the CMA acknowledges that the widespread use of such...