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Weekly Anti-trust and Privacy Updates

This week’s anti-trust and privacy updates are as follows: Federal Court of Australia finds Google Inc. in Breach of Local Consumer Laws The Federal Court of Australia, in 2021, had found Google in partial breach of local consumer laws. Google was found to be misleading users about collection of personal data such as location via Android mobile devices. Google conceding to the charges has agreed to pay a $60 million fine to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Disney Settles Anti-trust Suit…
August 18, 2022 Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition, Privacy / Data Protection 0Comment 627Views 0Like
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Latest Updates on Antitrust - February, 2022 - Part I

Latest Updates on Antitrust – February, 2022 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Antitrust: CCI Imposes Heavy Penalties On 6 Tyre Manufacturers For Cartelization The Competition Commission of India, the country’s antitrust watchdog, recently passed a cease and desist order and imposed heavy penalties on Apollo Tyres, MRF, CEAT, JK Tyres, Birla Tyres and Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association for cartelization. It was alleged that all the above-mentioned tyre manufacturers together controlled 90% of the tyre production in India and were engaged in price parallelism…
February 8, 2022 Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition 0Comment 937Views 2Likes
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Latest Updates in Antitrust - September, 2021 - Part III

Latest Updates on Antitrust – September, 2021 – Part III

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Antitrust: BASF obtains favourable verdict for patent-licensing antitrust claims Chemical company BASF Corp has succeeded in their claims against rival chemical company Ingevity Corp for antitrust claims of tying a license to a patent to an obligation to buy the consequent product. The jury in this case had reached an award of $28 million, however, based on a provision of US federal antitrust law, the award is to be tripled to…
September 20, 2021 Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition 0Comment 1036Views 0Like
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