Author: 21st Century Competition

Is the FTC Changing Its Intellectual Property Rights Policy? (Kluwer Antitrust Connect Blog)

Schiff Hardin LLP

Commissioner Josh Wright of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission certainly is the gift that keeps on giving to antitrust commentators. Rarely do many weeks go by without a Wright speech or dissenting opinion that cogently takes on an interesting competition issue, …read more

The General Court on the scope of the Commission’s powers to request information (Chillin’ Competition)

On Friday 14 March the General Court issued seven Judgments in cases T-292/11, T-293/11, T-296/11, T-297/11, T-302/11M T-305/11 and T-306/11. We represented one of the seven applicants (needless to say, the opinions below are exclusively my own, and in no way can be attributed to my client or my colleagues).

I …read more

Non-Appealing Cartelists Beware (Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers)

Tucked away at the back of last week’s Supreme Court decision on time-limits for follow-on claims is a very important development for private competition actions.

The context is section 47A of the Competition Act 1998, a provision which has generated an extraordinary amount of litigation in view of the fact that …read more

Tacit collusion to fight predatory pricing (Chillin’ Competition)

Fuel

I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching for the first time in the Executive LLM programme recently launched by the LSE. As is usually the case, one learns a lot from students. When discussing oligopolies and tacit collusion, Lars mentioned the creation of a Market Transparency …read more