Yesterday I reported that counsel for Nvidia entered an appearance in the FTC's in-house adjudicative proceeding, and the question was "whether those lawyers are going to try to support the FTC or whether the reason is just a discovery dispute." For now, there are no motions to intervene in accordance with 16 CFR § 3.14, but Nvidia's lawyers filed a motion on Monday that the PDF has made public now (PDF), seeking an extension until February 13 to move to limit or quash a subpoena served on Nvidia by Activision Blizzard on January 20. The motion says that Activision agrees to this extension of time.
Earlier today I reported on subpoenas served on Sony's PlayStation chief Jim Ryan, Nintendo of America CEO Doug Bowser, and Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick by class-action lawyers suing Microsoft over this deal in the Northern District of California. If Sony wants to bring a motion to limit or quash Microsoft's subpoena in the FTC case, it has to do so today and then we'll probably find about it tomorrow.
In other Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard news, Politico now also reports on the Statement of Objections (SO) that the European Commission has sent to Microsoft over the transaction:
🚨The European Union has issued Microsoft with a formal antitrust warning over its $69 billion swoop for Activision-Blizzard. A statement of objections was sent to the U.S. tech giant over the record-breaking deal yesterday. Read more ($): https://t.co/mcpMBMFnEl
— Samuel Stolton (@SamuelStolton) February 1, 2023
I've already commented on the news of the SO (which was widely expected).
