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3 Feb 2023, 9:33 pm by Florian Mueller
In that regard, the closest case I know (and immediately brought up when I commented on the FTC's complaint) is Pistacchio v. [read post]
31 Jan 2023, 2:13 pm by Florian Mueller
The FTC and DOJ's guiding principle these days--including this month's new United States et al. v. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 9:23 pm by Florian Mueller
If Sony gave competition authorities negative feedback to any proposal, though a hard and fast 10-year license agreement would be tantamount to a structural remedy, the regulators would want to explain in a formal clearance decision why it was not reasonable for Sony to say no.All of that takes time, and that's why Microsoft's lawyers apparently were in a position to tell the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that the… [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 3:10 am by Florian Mueller
The claim about "more mature content for more serious gaming" is something that with my games industry background (once the first person to work for Blizzard outside the United States) and my own experience playing games I have to reject: it's just not true that mature content implies or fosters serious gaming. [read post]
26 Nov 2022, 8:01 am by InhouseBlog
With respect to the fourth factor concerning likelihood of dilution, the TTAB held that Opposer’s SONY® mark is among the most widely recognized marks in the United States. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 12:12 pm by Florian Mueller
Judge James Donato of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California had entered the following order on Tuesday (November 15):"The request by plaintiffs Epic and Match to file amended complaints, [...], is granted. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 9:18 am by Florian Mueller
Sony can't even credibly claim that CoD has the power to deprive it of market leadership: even if all PlayStation users who play CoD migrated to the Xbox, Sony would still be number one, and comfortably so. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 8:25 am by Florian Mueller
Apple trial in the current multi-jurisdictional dispute.At this stage, the jurisdiction that has received more attention than any other--oddly, even more than the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States--for its review of Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard is the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) of the United Kingdom. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 12:51 am by Florian Mueller
There are three paragraphs that stress the "central objective of CADE's efforts" ("o objetivo central da atuação do Cade"), which is that of every competition authority in the civilized world: to protect, in the interest of consumer welfare, the competitive process ("concorrência") (as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit also emphasized in its FTC v. [read post]
1 Oct 2022, 11:17 pm by Florian Mueller
In this regard, they've made concessions lately--concession that in my view don't go far enough to address competition concerns, but which nevertheless represent (limited) progress.On June 10, 2022, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California formally approved (PDF) a class-action settlement between small app developers and Apple. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 11:04 am by Florian Mueller
Just this week I pointed to Antitrust Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter's testimony before the United States Senate. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 12:26 am by Florian Mueller
Apple--will be heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday, October 21, 2022. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 8:52 am by Chris Castle
  It’s whether the government is paying just compensation for taking away rights under the Constitution of the United States. [read post]