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Corporate COunsel Forum

Competition LAw and TEchnology - 2008 Update

Wednesday 2 April 2008

2007 saw a number of landmark competition developments affecting the technology sectors and sectors that technology transforms, including the CFI judgments in Microsoft (refusal to deal, tying) and Akzo Nobel (privilege). At this Corporate Counsel Forum session, Susannah Sheppard, our head of Competition and Regulatory, assesses what these developments and others mean in practice for corporate counsel and looking ahead to what 2008 will bring.

Materials from the event are listed below:

Competition Law and Technology - Presentation
(Susannah Sheppard, head of Competition and Regulatory at Kemp Little LLP)
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Case study:

Competition Law and Technology (pdf)

Press releases:

The Court of First Instance essentially upholds the Commission’s decision finding that Microsoft abused its dominant position CVRIA, Press Release No 63/07 of 17 September 2007 (pdf)

Antitrust: Commission initiates formal investigations against Microsoft in two cases of suspected abuse of dominant market position Europa, Rapid, Press Releases (Memo/08/19), 14 January 2008

Antitrust: Commission imposes €899 million penalty on Microsoft for non-compliance with March 2004 Decision Europa, Rapid, Press Releases (IP/08/318), 27 February 2008