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Top Antitrust Issues for Consumer Products Manufacture and Distribution

Foley

Elizabeth Haas is a partner and chair of the Antitrust Practice Group at Foley. In this video, she details unique business challenges that can raise antitrust issues. At Foley, we work closely with our consumer products clients to develop practical strategies, tailored to achieve business objectives while complying with antitrust law.

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Antitrust: Heightening Expansion, Review, and Enforcement

Foley

Manufacturing companies should actively prepare for heightened antitrust scrutiny of their business practices in 2023, including practices that have not traditionally garnered the focus of the federal antitrust enforcers. 15, 1993) ; Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care (Aug.

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View from Brussels: Departure is bad timing for R&D

E&T

After two years as head of digital policy in the previous administration, Gabriel was put in charge of research, innovation, education, culture and youth policies by the current head of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. For the time being, her responsibilities have been split between two high-ranking commissioners.

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Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725m

E&T

The class-action lawsuit relates to a Facebook policy that allowed Cambridge Analytica to design an app that collected personal data from Facebook users, allowing the company to tailor specific political adverts to small groups of people. In addition, the Cambridge Analytica scandal is still ongoing, as Washington, D.C.

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Ofcom to probe cloud market dominance of Amazon, Microsoft and Google

E&T

These measures could include taking enforcement action, recommending regulation or policy changes to the government or referring the issue to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for further investigation. However, she confirmed further action could be taken should Ofcom find indication that the companies are harming competition.

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8 noteworthy robotics acquisitions of 2023

Robotics Business Review

Federal Trade Commission officially started an antitrust investigation. Department of Defense specified policy, assigned responsibilities and provided procedures for automated weapons platforms. Amazon announced in August 2022 its intent to acquire iRobot for $1.7 The deal was quickly put on hold in September 2022, when the U.S.

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Six tech giants named ‘gatekeepers’ under new EU competition law

E&T

“It was high time that Europe sets its rules of the game upfront, providing a clear enforceable legal framework to foster innovation, competitiveness and the resilience of the single market, rather than having to rely on lengthy and not always effective antitrust investigations. The DMA does just that. “No

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