Tag: Competition

Jon Jacobs is joining Perkins Coie’s Washington office, where he’ll be a partner in the antitrust and unfair competition litigation practice. He spent the...

The news industry is banding together to seek a limited antitrust exemption from Congress in an effort to fend off growing competition from Facebook...

Intercontinental Exchange said it will sell energy trading software firm Trayport after losing an appeal of a decision by Britain's competition watchdog calling for...

The commission determined that the vast majority of operators face “effective competition” from satellite and telco companies. That so-called “rebuttable presumption” stripped local officials...

The European Union’s antitrust watchdog accused General Electric, Japan’s Canon as well as German pharmaceuticals group Merck KGaA and Sigma-Aldrich of breaching the bloc’s...

On Monday the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Chipmaker Broadcom has received US antitrust approval to buy Brocade Communications Systems. The buyout had already...

Posted by Social Science Research Network Reasonable Patent Exhaustion By Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania) Abstract:      A lengthy tug of war between the Supreme...

The Hong Kong Competition Commission announced today that Brent Snyder, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for criminal antitrust enforcement at the US Department of...

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed partner Thomas Janssens as its global competition practice head. Thomas Janssens is a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s antitrust, competition...

Posted by Social Science Research Network Between a Rock and Two Hard Places: WhatsApp at the Crossroad of Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law By Nicolo...