Grant Murray, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Internet of Things: Antitrust concerns in the pipeline?

Grant Murray (Baker & McKenzie)/May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 /Leave a comment

Ever since the incoming EU Competition Commissioner said that information was the new currency of the internet, antitrust commentators started to spill ink on the topic of Big Data and whether it was a Big Deal. The topic now seems to occupy a place on the agenda of many antitrust conferences – and as recently…

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Inadvertent collusion in e-commerce: EU’s highest Court confirms that automated messages can put recipients on the hook for a price-fixing cartel…

Grant Murray (Baker & McKenzie)/February 2, 2016 /Leave a comment

Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania. An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant discounts would be capped at 3 per cent. That message appeared in part of the system relating to “information messages”. The Court of Justice found that…