#eu-antitrust

#eu-antitrust

According to a new report today, Apple and Meta's regulatory woes in the EU are almost over. Both companies are allegedly close to settling their antitrust cases with the European Commission (EC), which will definitely be good for them as they'd avoid some additional hefty fines that the EC might impose otherwise. This information isn't official yet, the report says it comes from "officials briefed on the discussions" between the EC on one side, and Apple and Meta respectively on the other.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Union Intellectual Property Office announces that it will host its first two-day Copyright Conference in November; the D.C. Circuit finds that Shira Perlmutter showed a likelihood of irreparable harm in granting injunctive relief allowing her to temporarily resume her role as Register of Copyrights; Novartis becomes the latest pharmaceutical company to lose constitutional challenges to the IRA Drug Price Negotiation