Case C-264/23 Booking.com – Ancillary restraints and market definition in the platform economy
The recent judgment of the CJEU in Booking.com represents yet another development in the long […]
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Microsoft III – Paving The Way To A Tying Trilogy?
This summer the European commission (finally) announced it will start a formal investigation against Microsoft […]
Why you (often) don’t need the essential facility doctrine in the digital economy? – Interpreting Lithuanian Railways and Slovak Telekom
The insights from Lithuanian Railways and Slovak Telekom may have serious implications for the application […]
Epic v Apple (2): market power and foreclosure in the app distribution market(s)
Epic’s battle against Apple has been extensively covered in media in the past month. This […]
The return of the MFN clauses – platform ranking as an enforcement mechanism for price parity
The MFN cases of the past few years have delivered a series of uncoordinated cases […]
Business users vs. platforms – a (not entirely) new battle frontier
The recent complaint of Spotify against Apple is yet another case concerning the contractual relationship between online […]
Apple’s App Store commission fee and (anti-competitive) governance: when a platform’s zero-pricing strategy becomes expensive
These days Apple is at the Supreme Court trying to defend its pricing scheme for […]
Market definition for two-(or multi) sided platforms – demand interdependence and substitution as guiding principles
The past year has led to a lot of discussion on the relation between competition […]
Price monitoring software and competition – new possibilities for RPM in absence of sufficient deterrence
Shortly after the dropping the A-bomb on Google for its alleged tying practices, the Commission […]
Tales of two-sided markets, market definitions and anti-competitive effects – insights from Ohio v. American Express
The case of Ohio v. Amex is the final phase of a long legal […]