Enforcing the criminal anti-cartel provisions of Canada’s Competition Act has been a dynamic undertaking for the Competition Bureau over the last five years. However, despite the significant transformation to the landscape of both the Act itself and the Criminal Code, the Bureau’s willingness to vigorously and consistently enforce the Act’s …read more
Standard setting organizations have for many years asked members to commit to license patents essential to use of standards on Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory terms. Because SSOs have not defined explicitly what FRAND means, courts and regulators have been forced to interpret it. We have previously written on how standard …read more
The views expressed in this article are inspired by two recent decisions taken by the European Commission on April 29, 2014, the Motorola and the Samsung decisions. These decisions are the first Commission decisions concerning competition law enforcement in relation to standard essential patents. In essence the Commission has found …read more
One firm’s ability to break into the market for “bone mills” used in spinal-fusion surgery did not foreclose the possibility that medical device company Medtronic monopolized or attempted to monopolize the bone mill market, the U.S. Court of …read more