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Consultation on the CMA바카라 사이트™s Proposed Recommendation on the Assimilated TTBER

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Competition and Markets Authority
Published
14 March 2025

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Summary

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on a proposed recommendation that the Secretary of State replace the Assimilated Technology Transfer Block Exemption with a UK block exemption order, when it expires on 30 April 2026.

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Consultation description

The CMA is consulting on its proposed recommendation (the Proposed Recommendation) to the Secretary of State (SoS) for Business and Trade regarding the (the Assimilated TTBER), which expires on 30 April 2026. The Assimilated TTBER exempts certain types of technology transfer agreements from the Chapter I prohibition of the Competition Act.

In the Proposed Recommendation, the CMA proposes to recommend that the Secretary of State make a block exemption order of 12 years바카라 사이트™ duration that exempts the categories of technology transfer agreements currently exempted by the Assimilated TTBER, and which includes the same definitions, conditions and obligations as the Assimilated TTBER (adapted as necessary for UK purposes), but with the following variations:

  • removing 바카라 사이트˜utility models바카라 사이트™ from the definition of 바카라 사이트˜technology rights바카라 사이트™
  • adding 바카라 사이트˜copyright in a database바카라 사이트™ and 바카라 사이트˜database rights바카라 사이트™ to the definitions of 바카라 사이트˜technology rights바카라 사이트™ and 바카라 사이트˜intellectual property rights바카라 사이트™
  • adding definitions of 바카라 사이트˜active sales바카라 사이트™ and 바카라 사이트˜passive sales바카라 사이트™
  • replacing the market share thresholds in respect of technology markets with a condition that there be at least 3 independently controlled substitutable technologies in addition to the technologies held by the parties to the agreement

The CMA has prepared the Proposed Recommendation having regard, among other things, to responses to the call for inputs on the Assimilated TTBER, which ran from midday on 26 July 2024 to 5pm on 6 September 2024. These responses to the call for inputs are published on the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation consultation page.

Find out more and how to respond on the page.

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