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In December 2015, the ECN Working Group was established to monitor the effects of remedies offered in hotel booking platform cases.

On 28 March 2019, the General Court delivered a judgment on an appeal lodged by Pometon against the European Commission's decision in the Steel Abrasives cartel case (Case T-433/16, Pometon SA v. Commission).

The European Commission adopted two important decisions with respect to the application of EU competition rules to standard essential patents.

In 2007, Electrabel began consultations with the Commission to determine whether it had obtained control, finally submitting a formal notification in April 2008.

The primary aim of the study was to investigate to what extent manufacturers program the obsolescence of their electrical and electronic devices.

The underlying national proceedings pitted two Chinese telecommunications firms, Huawei and ZTE, against each other.

On 10 May 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") upheld a judgment of the General Court ("GC") which had dismissed actions brought by Helena Rubenstein SNC and L'Oréal SA against a decision of OHIM - the EU's trade mark registration office - to annul the companies' trade marks.

On 27 March 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") responded to a preliminary question of the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) on the interpretation of Article 8(3) of Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (the "Directive").

On 19 December 2018, the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office found in favour of Beats Electronics and annulled a decision of the EUIPO's Opposition Division of 29 March 2018.

On 2 May 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") delivered a preliminary ruling in the case pitting SAS Institute Inc. ("SAS") against World Programming Ltd. ("WPL").

On 1 July 2012, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (the "Working Party"), the independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy, adopted an opinion on cloud computing (WP196) (the "Opinion").

Facebook contested the jurisdiction of the Austrian court, which therefore asked for clarification from the ECJ in the form of a preliminary reference.

On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a significant judgment regarding the protection of personal data on the Internet.

Fashion ID, a German online retailer, integrated the Facebook "Like" button into its website.

As reported in the last issue of VBB on Competition Law (see VBB on Competition Law, Volume 2013, No. 9, available at www.vbb.com), on 19 September 2013 the higher regional court of Berlin handed down a judgment concerning the prohibition of sales over eBay in the context of a selective distribution system operated by Sternjakob.

On 8 May 2012, Portugal’s new competition law was published in the national Official Journal, thoroughly overhauling the Portuguese competition regime.

On 1 April 2014, changes to the UK competition regime introduced by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 came into force.

This judgment arose following an arbitral award given in 2012. A company that was not a party to the arbitration proceedings but nevertheless felt aggrieved by the award initiated third party proceedings...