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Google’s business secrets were violated by French injunction, court says

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 22 Jun 2022 15:40
  • 22 Jun 2022 16:07
Google has persuaded a French court to reprimand the country's competition authority for publishing its business secrets in the public version of a 2019 injunction.

The Paris Appeal Court said that the college of the Autorité de la Concurrence was wrong to publish the information that had been deemed classified b

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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