squeezes have been a recognized but controversial antitrust violation for two-thirds of a century. We examine the law and …, we find little room for antitrust liability except in one circumstance: where a squeeze is used to restrain the rival …

. Nevertheless, there is probably little room for application of the antitrust laws, given that the Federal Circuit has expressly … notice deters rather than promotes innovation, the fact is that conduct approved by law cannot form the basis of an antitrust … decision can be defended as a matter of antitrust policy, it exposes serious deficiencies in the patent continuation process …

Should antitrust law ever sanction the accumulation of market power or permit other restraints of trade if such conduct … antitrust judge come to the same result under a defensible application (or extension) of existing legal doctrine? This question … highlights the tensions between an antitrust policy dedicated to preserving "competition" and an antitrust policy dedicated to …

make that judgment; second, there appears to be no identifiable antitrust theory of liability that would require neutral …The Federal Trade Commission recently voted unanimously to close its antitrust investigation into Google’s search ….S. antitrust laws. The agency determined that, although the practice (often called “search bias”) may have an incidental negative …

Antitrust originated in popular resistance to 17th century Royal Grants and 19th century economic power. This article … contends that much of the guiding force of today's antitrust policy stems from these early sentiments, applied to thoroughly … different legal and economic circumstances. Specifically, 'monopolists' constrained by antitrust law are very different today …

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 holding in FTC v. Actavis, Inc. that antitrust liability can attach to reverse … agreement violates antitrust law are entitled to any relief. Unresolved issues about the private plaintiff causation requirement …

Antitrust guarantees a particular distribution of wealth between consumers and producers. Big data allows firms with … the current distribution of wealth by allowing firms to charge the highest possible prices to everyone. Current antitrust …

Computational antitrust is gaining high attention from competition authorities worldwide. In this paper, we examine the … promises and downsides of merger simulations as a tool of computational antitrust. In doing this, we first provide an overview … to reap considerable prospects of merger simulations as a computational antitrust tool …

adequate response to markets without prices. Modern antitrust law is firmly grounded in neoclassical economics — price theory …. Steeped in price theory, preeminent antitrust theorists have unsurprisingly urged that without prices there can be no markets … increase in the volume of zero-price products being consumed, antitrust institutions and analysts have failed to provide an …

Antitrust analysis of online markets is a hot topic around the world. In a number of jurisdictions, online markets … already have been subject to antitrust review in merger or conduct cases. In other jurisdictions, these issues are in a … optimal antitrust policy. What these cases tend to share are some basic features as to how online markets work. Some …