3/26/2026 3:58:33 PM Competition litigation: 'user damages' for the unlawful collection and use of data? By Matthew Hunt The cause of action in competition cases in the UK is usually the tort of breach of statutory duty. As a general rule, the damages to be...
3/26/2026 9:53:33 AM A bump in the road? US DOJ subjects automotive licensing negotiation group to antitrust scrutiny By Sophie Lawrance Edwin Bond The US Department of Justice is investigating car manufacturers for participating in a licensee negotiation group (LNG), MLex has...
3/24/2026 7:10:42 PM From AI pricing algorithms to public procurement: UK Competition and Markets Authority publishes its 2026–27 annual plan By Victoria Yuan James Batsford On 23 March, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its 2026-2027 Annual Plan (the Annual Plan): the first since the...
2/18/2026 9:25:18 AM Qualcomm wins again on chips and royalties as UK competition collective action is withdrawn By Sophie Lawrance The UK collective proceedings regime received another indication today of the challenges to standalone abuse of dominance claims, as...
12/10/2025 2:08:26 PM Cloudy Outlook for Copycats? Successful Reputation-based Trade Mark Claim in Lookalike Packaging Dispute By Tim Heaps A Summary of the Court of Appeal’s Judgment in Thatchers v Aldi Tim Heaps, ‘Cloudy Outlook for Copycats? Successful Reputation-based...
11/26/2025 12:51:58 PM UK Competition and Markets Authority launches its first consumer enforcement action – what businesses need to know By Victoria Yuan Stephen Smith Sean Ibbetson On 18 November, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) used its direct enforcement powers under the Digital Markets, Competition...
11/13/2025 5:22:50 PM Judgment in second-hand software dispute By Anna Cook The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has handed down a judgment on two preliminary issues relating to the reselling of software licences...
10/22/2025 12:19:36 PM Competition-IP Interface: Transactions, Collaboration, and Unilateral Conduct (EU) By Sophie Lawrance Edwin Bond Iva Gobac Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the publishers. For further information, visit practicallaw.com. A Practice Note...
10/21/2025 3:18:56 PM Fashion Victims: European Commission fines Gucci, Chloé and Loewe €157 million for resale price fixing By Edwin Bond Iva Gobac On 14 October 2025, the European Commission announced that it had imposed fines of over €157 million on luxury fashion houses Gucci,...
9/4/2025 8:26:40 AM Injunctions: Taking the hackers to court By Marc Dautlich Freya Ollerearnshaw Imagine your organisation falls victim to a nightmare cyber extortion event. Hopefully you have a cyber response plan already in place,...
8/14/2025 11:42:10 AM Women’s healthcare and UK competition enforcement – recent developments By Antonia Kendrick Healthcare generally is a priority enforcement sector for competition watchdogs across the world, including the UK’s Competition and...
7/30/2025 2:34:53 PM Biotech Review of the Year: latest developments By Bristows LLP At the start of the year, our editors (Xisca Borrás, Katie Cambrook and Aida Tohala) presented to you the 12th edition of our Biotech...