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Collusive agreements in inter-island air transport markets: competition law concerns in structurally constrained sectors
Resume: Structurally constrained markets regularly test the limits of competition law enforcement, particularly where economic fragility is invoked to justify anticompetitive agreements between competitors. Decision No. 24-D-10 of 4 December 2024 offers a clear...
Professional Associations: Between Freedom of Expression and Competition Law
Resume: The Court of Cassation, in its decision of 15 October 2025 (No. 23-21.370), upheld the sanction imposed on a dental trade union for organizing a boycott against care networks, holding that such conduct constitutes a restriction of competition by object under...
A request for protection under trade secret law in the context of legal proceedings in the luxury watch distribution sector
Resume: The Paris court of appeal’s ruling of May 22, 2025, clarifies the conditions for protecting trade secrets. The court held that information acquired after 2017can be protected, but refused automatic protection for data older than five years, which it considered...
The systemic evolution of the market for veterinary medicines and products: a source of competitive concerns under competition law
Resume: The Competition Authority was consulted on the issue of the evolution of the market for veterinary medicines and products (French Competition Authority, October 13th, 2025, Opinion No. 25-A-12). Indeed, in recent years, this market has experienced an explosion...
The Paris Court of Appeal recognizes parasitism in the absence of copyright infringement in a luxury dispute
Resume: On January 31, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal recognized the originality of Bulgari’s Serpenti jewellery, protected by copyright, but dismissed the counterfeiting claim, ruling that APM Monaco’s designs did not sufficiently replicate their characteristic...
The French Competition Authority qualifies, for the first time, as anti-competitive, a standalone non-poaching agreement
Resume: The French Competition Authority needed to examine three objections consisting of two different categories of practice. To begin with, there were a pair of “gentlemen’s agreements” of non-poaching, aimed at suppressing the competition on the employment of the...
The French Competition Authority Fines Twelve Manufacturers and Distributors €611 Million for Vertical Price-Fixing in the Household-Appliances Sector
Resume: The French Competition Authority imposed a record fine (€611 million) on ten manufacturers and two major distributors active in the household-appliance sector for engaging in resale price maintenance (RPM) practices through twelve vertical price-fixing...
Clarification of the causal link requirement in antitrust damages: the Gaches Chimie ruling of 26 February 2025
Resume: The Commercial Chamber of the French Cour de cassation rendered a judgment on February 26, 2025 (Cour de cassation, Commercial Chamber, February 26, 2025, No. 23-18.599), in which it upheld the previous decision of the Paris Court of Appeal regarding the...
The French Supreme Court overturns the appellate decision that failed to establish an abuse of dominant position through disparagement, alarmist and misleading statements about the risks of using a drug
Resume: The French Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal, that failed to establish that pharmaceutical laboratories had abused their dominant position by disseminating, on the one hand, an alarmist, even misleading, discourse to public...
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