7/11/2025 8:39:50 AM Some comfort at last - European Commission issues informal guidance endorsing Automotive Licensing Negotiation Group By Sophie Lawrance Katharine Head On 9 July 2025, the European Commission (EC) issued informal guidance (aka a ‘comfort letter’) that the creation of a Licensing...
6/24/2025 11:09:04 AM Interim injunctions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal - recent developments By Sophie Lawrance A perennial complaint about competition law is that it takes too long. Investigations and litigation can often run for many years before...
6/19/2025 2:50:14 PM Not playing nicely: abuse of dominance in the toy industry By Edwin Bond On 16 June the UK High Court handed down an entertaining judgment in a dispute between MGA Entertainment, one of the world’s largest toy...
5/29/2025 4:12:44 PM “Context always matters”: AG Emiliou’s Opinion on no-poach agreements in the Tondela case By Edwin Bond In his recent Opinion in Case C-133/24 Tondela and others, Advocate General Emiliou has suggested that a no-poach agreement concluded...
4/15/2025 9:20:07 AM The CMA’s new enforcement and investigatory powers By Georgia Austin Sean Ibbetson The consumer law provisions of the DMCC Act came into force on Sunday 6 April reforming consumer protection in the UK. To learn more...
4/4/2025 2:49:08 PM Introducing our website hub dedicated to the advertising and consumer protection law aspects of the DMCC By Sean Ibbetson Francion Brooks Alice Esuola-Grant Elisa Lindemann +1 more... Show less Introducing our brand new website hub dedicated to the advertising and consumer protection law aspects of the Digital Markets,...
4/2/2025 12:56:15 PM The final run-up to the DMCC’s consumer enforcement regime: what to expect on 6 April 2025 By Elisa Lindemann Kallie Botha Georgia Austin The Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC) will come into force on 6 April 2025 and will reform consumer protection law...
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...