It has become conventional wisdom to view the rulings handed down by the Court of First Instance in <i>Airtours, Schneider, Tetra Laval</i> and <i>Impala</i> as unprecedented setbacks for the European Commission that would usher in a new era of administrative accountability in the field of merger control.

Striking the right balance in dealing with emerging issues at the intersection between competition and IPR's can present serious challenges. Damien Geradin & Hee-Eun Kim (Covington & Burling)