Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joshua S. Gans (Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto) and Lars Persson, (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)) have a very interesting paper on Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and...
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nathalie Jalabert-Doury & Gillian Sproul (Mayer Brown) have written on Enforcer's Consideration of Compliance Programs in Europe: Are 2011 Initiatives Raising Their Profile or Reducing It to the Lowest Common Denominator? In Europe, compliance programs...
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Petra Lunackova (Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague) describes The Unnoticed Difference between Antitrust and Competition Policy. ABSTRACT: This paper presents a model which focuses on differences between the competition policy of the EU...
Sólo para aclarar algo que me afecta como estudioso del Derecho de Contratos y tras convertirme a la “verdadera religión” gracias a la lectura de esta breve columna de Aurelio Desdentado (Magistrado de la Sala 4ª del Tribunal Supremo y poco sospechoso de neoliberal). Hay más de esa columna en la reforma finalmente aprobada que de todas las publicaciones de l […]
Aunque no para los afectados, que un asunto semejante se ventile ante los tribunales constituye una alegría para los que estudiamos temas de Derecho de contratos. Además, hay que agradecer al ponente de la Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 10 de febrero de 2012 la claridad con la que expone los hechos (no el supuesto de hecho) y la cuestión litigiosa D. Arma […]
En la Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 3 de febrero de 2012 se condena al IVEX, un organismo de la Generalitat Valenciana a pagar unas letras de cambio cuyo pago había avalado el IVEX a través de su director general, el cual fue condenado penalmente por actuaciones ilícitas al frente de dicho organismo. El Banco acreedor exigió el pago de las letras al IVEX […]
A commentary on the OECD Competition Commission conclusions on using arbitration to effectively resolve competition law disputes By Francesca Richmond and Sarah West There has been increasing use of arbitration to resolve disputes involving competition law issues in recent years. … Continue reading →
Sometimes competition law looks as if it’s on the side of the bullies. Take, for example, the French Autorité de la concurrence’s recent decision in the Paris food retail sector case. The Autorité came up with the idea of using … Continue reading →
A review of all decisions adopted pursuant to Article 81 EC/101 TFEU between the first of January 2000 and the first of January 2011 reveals that, excluding hardcore cartels, the Commission has issued altogether 18 infringement decisions and 10 commitment … Continue reading →
The authors are, respectively, partner and associate, at the firm of Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York City. Mr. Himes, who also co-chairs the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group, is the former Antitrust Bureau Chief, Office of the Attorney General of New … Continue reading →
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has blocked two mergers in the past several months, in each case after filing a lawsuit against the merging parties. The first case involved a relatively small transaction in the digital tax business involving … Continue reading →
On February 3, the White House announced President Barack Obama’s intention to nominate Bill Baer to serve as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. There was much speculation that Baer would be named to head … Continue reading →
SPEECH/12/117 Mr President, Members of the Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen: I would like to thank President Nilsson and the Committee for this kind invitation, which came at an opportune moment. A few days ago, the euro area reached an agreement on Greece; ...
European Commission - Press release Brussels, 22 February 2012 - The European Commission has authorised under EU state aid rules a grant from the European Cohesion Fund to the Klaipeda Port authority for the extension and improvement of quays for the ...
European Commission - Press release Brussels, 22 February 2012 - The European Commission will investigate whether financial arrangements between public authorities and the airports of Saarbrücken, Zweibrücken, Lübeck-Blankensee (Germany) and Klagenfurt ...
We read this rather fine article by Ted Banks recently on corporate antitrust compliance in Competition Policy International and reprint it here with permission. CPI is currently featuring a series of articles on corporate compliance. By Theodore L. Banks Ted Banks is counsel to the law firm of Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Scharf: www.schoeman.com and [... […]
Marlene Koury of Constantine Cannon LLP has written an interesting comparative article on the extension by some international enforcement agencies of protections to whistleblowers, in addition to existing immunity or leniency program protections (see: Making It Easier to Whistle While You Work). According to the author, while approximately 50 foreign jurisdi […]
Bruce Lyons has posted a very interesting summary of the European Commission’s and U.S. DoJ’s approval of Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility on Competition Policy Blog (University of East Anglia) From Competition Policy Blog: “The European Commission and US DoJ have approved a (mainly) vertical acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MM) by Google because t […]