The approaching end of 2017 has many jurisdictions in overdrive as authorities and companies get their ducks in a row for some deeply transformative changes ahead. Conflict between European regulators and major companies may be producing its first theoretical results; Chinese and Australian regulators keep busy with major tweaks and new heads at the US make their presence felt…
Strong Patent Protection Promotes Strong Economies
In her distinguished tenure as a Commissioner and as Acting Chairman of the FTC, Maureen Ohlhausen has done an outstanding job in explaining the tie between robust patent protection and economic growth and innovation…
Alden Abbott (Truth on the Market)
It Is Time for an Antitrust Whistleblower Statute
—Part I
Kimberly Justice and I wrote an article published in Global Competition Review arguing that it is time for an “Antitrust Whistleblower Statute.” Kimberly and I will be expanding on this idea in Cartel Capers blog posts over the next two weeks. Below is the first installment….
Robert E. Connolly (Geyer Gory – Antitrust Connect)
Pablo Ibanez Colomo (Chilling Competition)
It was with much sadness that I learned of the all-too-early death of Fred McChesney, whom I have known since the time that he spent at the University of Chicago Law School in the early 1980s when he visited on our faculty…
Richard Epstein (Truth on the Market)
Sara Kropf (Grand Jury Target)
On March 7, 2017, the Polish Court of Competition and Consumer Protection, the (“CCCP“), issued an important judgment regarding the powers of the Polish Competition Authority, the (“PCA“), to search IT systems and hardware (e-mails and hard disks) during dawn raids…
Piotr Skurzyński, Maciej Gac (Kluwer Competition – Hogan Lovells)
In my last post, I wrote about the difficulties that antitrust plaintiffs face in getting to trial with claims based on circumstantial evidence. I discussed a decision of the federal district court in Chicago in a long-running class action against paper companies for conspiring to raise prices for containerboard provides an example of the…
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer – Antitrust Connect)
The FTC will hold an “Informational Injury Workshop” in December “to examine consumer injury in the context of privacy and data security.” Defining the scope of cognizable harm that may result from the unauthorized use or third-party hacking of consumer information is, to be sure, a crucial inquiry, particularly as ever-more information is stored digitally…
In July of 2013, Danny Meyer, the CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group, tweeted that he was considering eliminating tipping at his restaurants and solicited the opinion of other restaurant owners…
by Jamison Davies and Robert P. LoBue (Antitrust Update)
On the 14 September, the Court of Justice of the European Union provided detailed guidance on the concept of excessive pricing under Article 102 TFEU, in response to questions posed by the Latvian Supreme Court.
Kevin Coates, Siobhan Kahmann (Covington & Burling – Kluwer Competition)
Two laws to substantially amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 have now been passed in Parliament…
Norton Rose Fulbright
