This is a rundown of last week\u2019s news updates on Antitrust:<\/p>\n
Search engine giant Google has filed a writ petition against the CCI, the competition watchdog, over reports that a confidential report of the CCI\u2019s investigation over Google\u2019s practices in the Android smartphone sector was divulged to news outlets. The writ petition seeks a direction that the CCI act to prevent any further unlawful disclosures, submitting that Google itself had not received a copy of the Commission\u2019s report. The CCI has defended their stance, stating that Google\u2019s grievances lies with media outlets, and that Google has failed to point out any negligence by the antitrust body.<\/p>\n
The CCI having found that alcoholic beverages players United Breweries and Carlberg had engaged in a cartel to seek price increases in several states, imposed heavy fines of Rs. 750 crores and Rs. 120 crores respectively. The fines had been lowered following cooperation from the entities in the investigation. The matter had first been reported to the CCI by Anheuser Busch InBev who, when acquiring SABMiller Inc., had detected such a cartel. United Breweries Chief of Sales Kiran Kumar and Carlsberg India Managing Director Nilesh Patel were also individually penalised by the CCI.<\/p>\n
Resolving problems for the search engine giant, Google has offered to settle the EU investigation of their digital advertising segment, so as to avoid a lengthy probe and a heavy fine. The European Commission, the body charged with regulating competition in the EU, had opened an investigation into allegations that Google had prioritised its display advertising technology over that of rivals, advertisers and online publishers.<\/p>\n
Authored by Rohan Joshua Jacob (Associate).<\/p>\n
This update analyses significant antitrust actions in India and Europe, including Google\u2019s petition against the CCI and fines imposed on beer companies for cartelisation. It also reviews Google\u2019s efforts to settle the EU\u2019s digital advertising investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3822],"tags":[2228,11455,11456,1608,5622,11457,261,6110],"class_list":["post-83769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-ip-and-antitrust-competition","tag-antitrust","tag-cartel","tag-cci-fines","tag-competition-commission-of-india","tag-digital-advertising","tag-eu-investigation","tag-google","tag-legal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142205,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83769\/revisions\/142205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}