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On 7 February 2021, the Antimonopoly Committee of the State Council issued the Antimonopoly Guidelines on Platform Economic Sector (Platform Antimonopoly Guidelines), which is China’s first specific antitrust rules on platforms. The Platform Antimonopoly Guidelines signal a strengthening of antitrust enforcement against monopolistic behaviours in China’s internet platform sector. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued the Platform Antimonopoly Guidelines, based on a draft of the Antimonopoly Guidelines on Platform Economic Sector (Draft Platform Antimonopoly ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The German Act on the Further Development of the Restructuring and Insolvency Law (Sanierungs- und Insolvenzrechtsfortentwicklungsgesetz – SanInsFoG) took effect on January 1, 2021, transforming the European Restructuring Directive of June 20, 2019 ((EU) 2019/1023) and introducing a self-administrated restructuring option outside the standard insolvency proceeding. THE PRE-INSOLVENCY RESTRUCTURING PLAN The core element of the SanInsFoG is the option of a self-administrated pre-insolvency restructuring by way of a restructuring pla...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The vast majority of patent litigation involves a patent or a patent portfolio that has been assigned at least once during its life. Yet seemingly simple and ubiquitous patent assignment documents are blundered by even experienced counsel. Failed patent assignments present a conspicuous procedural trap for unwary patent owners and creates an opportunity for a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) “lack of standing” challenge. [1] To name a few potential pitfalls, U.S. patent law is clear that patent assignments must be in “...

The Development: The Bundestag, the German legislature, amended Germany's antitrust laws to include special competition rules for digital platform "companies with overwhelming...

The 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC) entered into force on January 19 (ARC Digitization Act); the act seeks to modernize German antitrust rules...