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...
3/14/2025 10:09:03 AM Will the UPC’s PMAC help fill the void left by the intended withdrawal of the SEP Regulation? By Matthew Hunt Last week I attended the Warsaw SEP Conference. One of the topics that caught my attention, amongst the raft of interesting discussions...
3/14/2025 10:02:34 AM Tesla v Interdigital: Tesla hits a speed bump as Court of Appeal dismisses its claim for a FRAND ‘pool’ licence By Sophie Lawrance Francion Brooks Amy Howlett On 6 March 2025, the UK Court of Appeal dismissed Tesla’s claim for the UK court to set the FRAND rate for a licence to the Avanci 5G...
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...
3/10/2025 11:06:25 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Myles Jelf Charlie French Nicholas Round Eden Winlow Katie Cambrook Maria Ryan +3 more... Show less The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural 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 1:19:16 PM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Dominic Adair Naomi Hazenberg Aida Tohala Ben Reeves +1 more... Show less The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
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...