This article examines the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law, critiquing the government's approach … Federal Trade Commission's treatment of innovation effects as a factor in antitrust analyses. While the government … characterizes innovation effects as fundamental to Antitrust-IP law, the Guidelines set forth by the government in its present state …

Low prices are one of antitrust law's traditional promises to society. Resale price maintenance (RPM), the practice … antitrust laws. The practice emerged in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with the rise of advertising and has been one … of the most controversial antitrust topics ever since. At the heart of the controversy lies the question of why would …

illicit behaviour or to prohibit it. Although this question can arise, and has done so already, as a defence in antitrust …

Of all fields of regulation in the United States, antitrust law relies most heavily on economics to inform the design … and application of legal rules. When drafting antitrust statutes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Congress … analytical content. In principle, the flexibility of U.S. antitrust statutes makes competition policy adaptable and accommodates …

theory and trades the current antitrust regime, which promotes consumer welfare, for one that invariably benefits businesses …Hipster Antitrust calls for the outright rejection of the consumer welfare standard as the lodestar of antitrust law in … goals. It also advocates for focusing antitrust primarily upon simplistic and, in some cases, long-rejected, proxies of …

, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focusses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues -- the European … antitrust policy concerning complex vertical contracts, regulatory reform of the electricity industry and the allocation of …

market is lower and prices higher than they would otherwise be. Here we consider how the antitrust laws might be applied to … that would subject them to antitrust liability. Section 1 of the Sherman Act and §7 of the Clayton Act take quite different …

This paper clarifies the relation between per se hub-and-spoke and vertical rule of reason antitrust analysis, the …