Author: 21st Century Competition

Convictions, $500 Million Fine Upheld in Price Fixing Case Against AU Optronics; Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act No Bar (Kluwer Antitrust Connect Blog)

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco last week upheld the price fixing convictions of Taiwanese electronics manufacturer AU Optronics (AUO), its U.S. subsidiary, and two company executives. The appellate court also affirmed a $500 million fine …read more

Why Competition Is Good: Against the Backdrop of West Coast Chinese Food (Canadian Competition and Regulatory Law)

July 14, 2014

They say blogs are supposed to be, at their heart, diaries. In other words, not (in the case of lawyers or firms) case summaries or treatises, not finely polished works but rather a daily record of the comings and goings in the bloggers’ field, ideas, observations and hopefully …read more

Contest Law: A Few Interesting Recent Questions, Including CASL & Criminal Code (Canadian Competition and Regulatory Law)

July 12, 2014

In Canada, “competition law” overlaps with advertising and marketing law. One of the reasons for this is because the federal Competition Act in Canada includes a number of advertising and marketing law sections, including some specific provisions relating to promotional contests. (Though of course contests in Canada can …read more

Antitrust & Associations: Collective Refusals to Supply – What’s the Deal? (Canadian Competition and Regulatory Law)

July 11, 2014

Well summer is here and I have to admit that my blog output has slowed a bit (and likely will through the summer). Nevertheless, on my daily media and competition authorities sweep earlier I read what I thought was a rather interesting note by the Irish Competition Authority …read more