Top 10 Anti-trust/Competition Headlines from Asia Pacific On 23 October 2009 the Beijing Dongcheng District People's Court announced the settlement of an Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) case brought by an activist lawyer in Beijing against China's largest mobile network operator, China Mobile. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has continued its recent trend of taking an activist approach to merger control in imposing conditions under the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) on the clearance of two proposed mergers, Pfizer/Wyeth and General Motors/Delphi. China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has announced two new conditional clearance decisions under the country's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) merger control system, meaning five deals have now been subject to conditional approval or outright prohibition since the law commenced. On October 23, 2009, two private lawsuits filed under China's Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") were resolved, allowing more insight into the workings of the new statute. In August 2008, the People’s Republic of China ("PRC") implemented the Anti-Monopoly Law (the “AML”). The Japan Fair Trade Commission ("JFTC") has announced a cease and desist order requiring that Qualcomm Inc. rescind license provisions that required licensees to cross-license their patents to Qualcomm and refrain from asserting their own patents against Qualcomm or Qualcomm licensees. On 5 November 2009 the Federal Government announced major changes to the Franchising Code of Conduct (Code) and the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) (Act). The franchise sector breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Minister for Small Business Craig Emerson announced the Government's official response to the report of the recent Federal Parliamentary inquiry into franchising. It’s an advantage these days to be seen as ‘green’. Companies are desperate to capture the new green consumer market, and as a result, we are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of carbon neutral and carbon offset claims being made by businesses, and in some cases, by unscrupulous traders looking to ‘greenwash’ their advertising to attract consumers. Almost six years after the enactment of the Competition Act 2002 (“Competition Act”), India’s competition regulator - the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has finally become operational. | 
