Antitrust risks arise in common intellectual property transactions. This article reviews the general principles in the … antitrust analysis of transactions involving the licensing of intellectual property rights, and applies those principles in the …

This paper discusses discretion and prioritisation in public antitrust enforcement, in particular in the enforcement of … EU antitrust law. First, the paper defines the notion of discretion and discusses the rationale of discretion. Second, it … antitrust prohibitions. With regard to fines, the Commission has a significant degree of discretion, although this discretion is …

Reading the book commented will provide an updated view on the current situation of antitrust politics and law in the … United States. The book covers a wide spectrum of issues on market behavior and business practices affected by antitrust … antitrust rules. Consequently, this has increased the rigor required to plaintiffs in courts and before administrative …

Harold Demsetz once claimed that 'economics has no antitrust relevant theory of competition.' Demsetz offered this … provocative statement as an introduction to an economic concept with critical implications for the antitrust enterprise: the multi … of another. This insight has important implications for the current policy debate concerning how to design antitrust …

with the patented invention. Economic theory suggests that it is inappropriate to immunize a patent holder from antitrust …We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … antitrust principles, courts have found that monopolists could be liable for unlawfully extending their monopoly positions into …

Is antitrust law up to the task of addressing the "New Economy"? That is the question many have asked in recent years …. And that is one of the key questions addressed by the Antitrust Modernization Commission ("AMC"), a commission that … Congress established in 2002 "to examine whether the need exists to modernize the antitrust laws." Because antitrust in fact is …

in the new Guidelines in the light of the Commission's past practice, the case-law of the Community Courts and the theory …

This article makes two primary contributions to the antitrust literature. First, it identifies the dynamic … interrelationship across antitrust institutions. Second, it provides new empirical evidence from practitioner surveys to explore how the … institutional analysis. In the next Part it examines mergers as a case study of how one might apply antitrust institutional analysis …

groups, economists, antitrust lawyers, the business community, farmers, ranchers, and academics as the agriculture workshops … have the potential to distract antitrust analysis from its core mission: protecting competition and consumer welfare. While … imperfect, the economic approach to antitrust that has generated remarkable improvements in outcomes over the last fifty years …