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European Parliament Accepts Telecoms Competition Laws
News The deal will bring the European telecoms industry under standard competition law, and remove the exclusive dominance that national regulatory authorities have had over the market. Ten years ago, the telecoms sector was classed as a general service...
[December 13, 2001, 16:20]
BT Unlikely To Be Fined Over Broadband Pricing
News Ofcom announced on Wednesday that it believes BT has infringed competition law in its pricing of broadband services. This led to speculation that BT could be fined hundreds of millions of pounds, because a company that breaks competition law can...
[September 2, 2004, 15:25]
Europe Asserts Its Right To Regulate
News Legal experts said there are some important differences between US and EU competition law that could shape the Intel investigation. Monti himself, who has become a lightning rod for criticism of his commission's decisions, has taken pains to...
[June 11, 2004, 10:40]
Commission Silent On Details Of Vista Probe
News The European Commission first warned Microsoft in March this year that it was concerned Vista could violate competition law. Microsoft declined to comment specifically on the European Commission probe or Dalton's claim, but said it wanted to...
[October 3, 2006, 17:00]
EU Directive 'could Spark Patent War'
News If there were concerns about patents being used anti-competitively, these should be handled under competition law, he wrote. Microsoft case shows how insecure and inefficient competition law is in this area," the organisation said in a statement.
[October 3, 2003, 13:20]
Netscape Hits Microsoft With Lawsuit
News There is no question that Microsoft's conduct violated the law and harmed competition and consumers," Boe continued. In addition, AOL seeks monetary damages that could be tripled under federal law, although it did not specify an amount.
[January 23, 2002, 8:44]
Microsoft's Sun Deal 'will Not Affect EU Appeal'
News There is precedent in European competition law of companies using cash to shift the ground of a competition deal. The settlement is a good thing, but I don't think it has much impact on the Commission's case," said David Wood, a competition lawyer...
[April 5, 2004, 17:20]
Europe Heading Down DMCA Route, Warns Think Tank
News Far-reaching European copyright legislation making its way into UK law is likely to tighten the grip of large companies on consumers, according to a British IT policy think tank, because of the way it is being implemented across the European Union.
[September 16, 2003, 15:45]
EBay Clamps Down On Use Of Its Name
News They're stifling competition, going beyond the trademark law and into antitrust violations," said Coera, who sent a letter to the US Department of Justice about the matter. Still, the law is unclear about the responsibility of search engines to...
[August 11, 2003, 11:55]
Mandatory Open Source 'too Risky' For Australia
News The IP chapter also does not alter competition law in Australia and competition law can be used to address concerns about potentially anti-competitive conduct. Australia's coalition government has ruled out mandating the use of open-source software...
[September 6, 2004, 11:20]
Intel's Response To FTC Administrative Complaint
News June 8, 1998 -- Intel Corporation said today that it believes the Federal Trade Commission's administrative complaint before an FTC Administrative Law Judge is based upon a mistaken interpretation of the law and the facts.
[June 9, 1998, 17:20]
A Year Ago: Intel's Response To FTC Administrative Complaint
News June 8, 1998 -- Intel Corporation said today that it believes the Federal Trade Commission's administrative complaint before an FTC Administrative Law Judge is based upon a mistaken interpretation of the law and the facts.
[June 8, 1999, 6:33]
Analysis: FTC Action Against Intel Will Set Precedents
News This isn't like Microsoft," says Robert Lande, professor of law at the University of Baltimore and a former counsel to Microsoft. Instead, he said, there was only one reasonable explanation for what Intel did: A desire to destroy its rivals...
[June 10, 1998, 9:14]
Gmail Threatened By UK Lawsuit
Talkback The law on this matter is designed to protect traders against that form of unfair competition, which consists in acquiring for oneself, by means of false or misleading devices, the benefit of the reputation already achieved by rival traders.
[September 16, 2005, 19:39]
Toner Company Fights DMCA Lawsuit
News In a final round of skirmishing before a court hearing on Friday, a North Carolina company argued that a controversial copyright law does not prevent it from selling computer chips that allow toner cartridges to be reused.
[February 6, 2003, 8:06]
ICANN On The Verge Of Financial Collapse
News The group has asked for and received an offer of private sector fund-raising support from a White House official; if those solicitations were actually made, the actions might violate federal law. Such solicitations by a government official on...
[August 19, 1999, 16:16]
Microsoft 'a Monopoly' Rules Judge Jackson
News Microsoft's antitrust case moved from the court of law to the court of public opinion Sunday as both sides turned the nation's TV networks and newspapers to put their own spin on the widely perceived milestone pro-government, anti-Microsoft ruling...
[November 8, 1999, 8:26]
Bush Administration Leaps To Microsoft's Defence
News The Korea Fair Trade Commission ruled that Microsoft violated South Korean law by bundling its Windows Media Service with the Windows Server operating system, as well as its media player and instant-messaging program with Windows.
[December 8, 2005, 8:25]
Microsoft Antitrust Ruling Faces Appeal
News For most of our states, it is time to dedicate our resources to enforcement of the decree and the law," Miller said. Reilly said he wanted to send the message that "breaking the law does not pay. Bob Lande, an antitrust professor with University of...
[December 2, 2002, 7:12]
Analysis: The Microsoft Anticlimax
News Gleeful Justice Department and state officials seized upon the conclusions of law as vindication, calling it a benchmark victory in the history of antitrust enforcement. Microsoft has now been found by a court to have maintained its monopoly by...
[April 4, 2000, 10:15]
