The Microsoft Judgment

Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:00 to 17:00

Location

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Council Chamber, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP

Participants

Convenor: Dr Philip Marsden, Competition Law Forum

Chairs:

Speakers:

Nicholas Banasevic, DG Comp, European Commission
Per Hellstrom, DG Comp, European Commission
James Flynn QC, Brick Court Chambers
Jean-Francois Bellis, Van Bael & Bellis
Dr Helen Jenkins, OXERA
Bill Bishop, CRA International
James Killick, White & Case LLP
Thomas Vinje, Clifford Chance LLP
Jean-Yves Art, Microsoft
Dieter Paemen, Clifford Chance LLP
Frances Murphy, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Stephen Kinsella, Sidley Austin LLP
David Hull, Covington & Burling
Professor David Evans, LECG and UCL
Antonio Bavasso, Allen & Overy LLP and UCL
Thomas Graf, Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton LLP

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A conference in the immediate aftermath of the Microsoft judgment of the Court of First Instance: leading experts and representatives of the parties will gather in the days following the decision to review it, and its ramifications.

Topics:

• Bundling

• Interoperability

• Ramifications for Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation

• Ramifications for Antitrust Law and Policy
- the bundling of fines; periodic penalty payments; remedial powers

• Ramifications for Antitrust Law and Policy
- the bundling of fines; periodic penalty payments; remedial powers
- other Microsoft cases; other abuse cases
- possible improvements to the enforcement of EU competition law (role of the Commission and the European courts; length of proceedings;
- the enforcement of competition law in the international context (comity).

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