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Market definition remains a critical part of most antitrust cases, despite attempts to obviate it. While many … commentators have argued that a particular policy change may theoretically broaden or narrow antitrust markets, and thereby affect … substantive antitrust enforcement, none has empirically tested the hypothesis. This article does so—albeit crudely—for one class …
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This paper focuses on the genesis, taxonomy and timeline of U.S. criminal antitrust investigations, and uses time …
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The present paper analyzes the interaction between the economic review of the probition of abuses of a dominant position (Article 82 EC) on the one hand and the efforts to enhance private enforcement of competition law through private damage claims on the other hand. The paper argues that...
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This paper considers the effect of taxes on the definition of relevant markets in antitrust analysis by examining …
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. Patent pools constitute one potential mechanism to navigate such obstacles. This article examines how antitrust law may … impede patent pools from creating or increasing market power and, thereby, constrain pool usage. Current antitrust law … antitrust treatment of patent pools may be too strict because it does not sufficiently accommodate the type of technological …
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levels: first as a gap filler, i.e., to help explain “real world” evidence that neoclassical economic theory cannot explain … economics (with its more realistic assumptions of human behavior) goes mainstream in academia and the business world, one …; second to assess critically the assumptions of specific antitrust policies, such as merger review and cartel prosecutions …
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The essay develops a new approach for antitrust analysis of pay-for-delay settlements in pharmaceutical patent … antitrust cases concluding that the settlement agreements are legal per se so long as their pay-for-delay provisions fall … “within the scope of the patent.” The essay explains why proper antitrust analysis calls for separate attention to the scope …
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In August 2011, the United States brought a landmark antitrust lawsuit to prevent the merger of two of the nation … finance rules and antitrust's prevailing legal standard, a flexible fact-specific rule of reason …
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In modern antitrust law, intellectual and other forms of property have been treated symmetrically as a matter of … principle. Recent actions by the Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, however, sound a … preliminary injunctions or exclusion orders; arguing that breach of a FRAND commitment constitutes an antitrust violation; and …
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