Ran Karmi

1 week ago | jdsupra.com | Ran Karmi |Gal Rozent |Barnea Jaffa Lande

Bank Hapoalim and Israel Discount Bank will each pay the State Treasury ILS 40 million within the framework of an administrative settlement (“agreed order”), in respect of their acquisitions of minority stakes in a competitor which, according to the director-general of the Competition Authority, constitutes an illegal restrictive arrangement in violation of the Economic Competition law of 1988 (The Competition Law).

1 week ago | jdsupra.com | Irit Brodsky |Ran Karmi |Barnea Jaffa Lande

The US government, led by President Trump, has recorded another big win in the battle that US law enforcement agencies have been waging for years against Google. This time, a federal court issued a landmark ruling stating that Google acquired abusive monopolistic power in online ad tech markets and that it has been deliberately leveraging its dominance to stifle competition.

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Ran Karmi |Avishay klein |Barnea Jaffa Lande

A US court (in Delaware) recently handed down a precedent-setting ruling on a lawsuit filed by a copyright-owner, the media and technology conglomerate, Thomson Reuters, against the artificial intelligence platform, Ross Intelligence. The Delaware court ruled that the defendant had infringed the plaintiff’s copyrights, and that the defendant is not entitled to any of the statutory protections, including reliance on the “fair use” doctrine as a defense.