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  • December 5, 2007

    EU Gives Spain One Month To Lift Endesa Conditions

    The European Commission has given the Spanish government one month to lift some of the conditions placed on the acquisition of energy company Endesa SA by rival companies Enel and Acciona, claiming that the conditions do not comply with European Union law.

  • December 5, 2007

    Judge Nixes Remaining Claims In World Wrestling Suit

    A federal judge has tossed the rest of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.'s suit against two of its former licensing agents and the video game companies that allegedly bribed the agents and colluded with each other to rig bids for licenses of the company's intellectual property.

  • December 5, 2007

    EU Slaps Rubber Cartel Firms With €243M Fine

    The European Commission has handed down a collective €243.2 million in fines to a slew of chloroprene rubber producers for a decade’s worth of alleged market-sharing and price-fixing.

  • December 5, 2007

    Teflon Trademark Claims Shouldn't Stick: Pureflex

    Valve maker Pureflex Inc., which was sued by DuPont De Nemours & Co. over its usage of the Teflon trademark, said in court on Tuesday that the mark had been used enough times to make it generic and that DuPont was violating antitrust laws by using the trademark.

  • December 4, 2007

    Class Certified In Kickback Suit Against Wells Fargo

    A judge has partially certified a class in a lawsuit filed against Wells Fargo & Co. by a group of homeowners alleging the bank had a kickback arrangement with several private mortgage insurers, granting the plaintiffs' motion for class status but imposing several restrictions on the class period.

  • December 4, 2007

    Private Equity Firm Opposes Sirius, XM Merger

    A minority-owned private equity firm filed its opposition to the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., saying the deal runs afoul of antitrust laws.

  • December 4, 2007

    Australian Regulators Finalize Amcor's Immunity

    Australia's top competition watchdog has conferred unconditional immunity on Amcor Ltd., finding the company fully cooperated with regulators' investigation into an alleged cartel in the lucrative corrugated cardboard industry.

  • December 4, 2007

    Microsoft Fails To Block Canada Discovery Bid

    The federal judge that presided over the Microsoft antitrust case in Iowa has granted an intervention request brought by a group of Canadian plaintiffs trying to gain access to the millions of documents used in that suit's discovery for their own case against the software giant.

  • December 4, 2007

    German Court Allows T-Mobile's Exclusive IPhone Deal

    Deutsche Telekom AG confirmed Tuesday that its subsidiary T-Mobile will once again be allowed to sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Germany under its original terms, which included a mandatory service contract and a lock that kept the phone from being used on other mobile networks.

  • December 4, 2007

    Imaging Antitrust Suit Against Hospital Survives

    A village in Illinois and three of its trustees are asking a federal court to enter final judgment in their favor in a case in which they stood accused of helping a local hospital muscle out would-be competitors in the diagnostic imaging services market.

  • December 3, 2007

    ITC Won't Drop Anti-Dumping Duties On Uranium

    Anti-dumping duties on U.S. imports of French low enriched uranium are likely here to stay, now that the U.S. International Trade Commission has decided that their revocation would hurt U.S. uranium markets.

  • December 3, 2007

    FCC Blesses Tribune Buyout With Waivers

    The Federal Communications Commission has approved the proposed $8.2 billion sale of Tribune Co., awarding the company exemptions from media ownership rules that would have forced its new owner to sell off certain outlets.

  • December 3, 2007

    EU Antitrust Regulators Raid Fruit Companies

    European Commission antitrust regulators paid surprise visits to several of the world's largest exotic fruit companies last week to investigate allegations that the the companies conspired to fix prices.

  • December 3, 2007

    EU Sets Hearings In Rambus Patent Ambush Case

    The European Commission will reportedly hold hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday regarding allegations that semiconductor company Rambus Inc. withheld information regarding its patents in order to charge competitors high royalties once standards utilizing the patents were implemented.

  • December 3, 2007

    Alltel Settles With SEC Over Divestment Orders

    Alltel Corp. has agreed to shell out $1.325 million to settle charges that it violated a pair of court orders requiring it to divest its operations in four rural Minnesota areas in order to get its $1.1 billion purchase of Midwest Wireless Holdings LLC approved.

  • December 4, 2007

    Judge Tosses LimeWire Antitrust Counterclaims

    A judge has dismissed counterclaims brought by the operator of online file-sharing service LimeWire accusing a group of major record labels of colluding to stifle the development of new technology and to dominate the music industry.

  • December 12, 2007

    Growth Of Specialty Pharma Draws Generics Litigation

    As specialty pharmaceutical companies expand their foothold in the pharmaceutical arena, their drugs for niche markets are becoming much more susceptible to patent litigation with aggressive generics companies.

  • December 3, 2007

    WTO Deems Brazil's Ban On Tire Imports Illegal

    A World Trade Organization panel on Monday strengthened a previous report that sided with the European Communities, ruling that Brazil's restrictions on tire imports from across the Atlantic Ocean violate international tariff rules.

  • November 30, 2007

    Korean Prosecutors Raid Samsung Headquarters

    The Seoul District Prosecutors' Office reportedly raided Samsung Securities' headquarters and another Samsung Group unit's data center on Friday as part of an investigation into a corruption scandal rocking the electronics conglomerate.

  • November 30, 2007

    Judge OKs DRAM Judgment-Sharing Deal

    A federal judge has shot down a bid by the California attorney general to void a judgment-sharing agreement between dynamic random access memory manufacturers in an ongoing antitrust multidistrict litigation case after finding that the provisions of the deal are in line with public policy.