by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014 | Global Blogs
A maker of aluminum baseball bats was dealt a blow earlier this week when a federal judge tossed the company’s antitrust lawsuit arguing the performance standards for aluminum bats are anticompetitive. According to reports, bat maker Marucci Sports argued the...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014 | Global Blogs
UK regulators would likely have to fight to win jurisdiction over the $100 billion merger review of pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and AstraZeneca, according to competition experts. The deal is so large, according to reports, that the European Commission would likely...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014 | Global Blogs
More than 100 companies, including Facebook, Google and Amazon, have reportedly sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission warning the regulator against its proposed rules regarding net neutrality, to be revealed next week. After earlier proposals to...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014 | Global Blogs
The issues in antitrust law have long had a timeless quality. Although the legal doctrine and the economic theory underlying them have changed over time, the fundamental issues of cartels, vertical exclusion, market definition, oligopoly pricing, and monopolization...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014 | Global Blogs
In this article, I focus my remarks on the FTC’s work on data security and consumer privacy, and especially the privacy of information collected from consumers via the internet. I will not focus on the FTC’s important work in other aspects of consumer...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014 | Global Blogs
In 1914 Congress gave the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sweeping jurisdiction and broad powers to enforce flexible rules to ensure that it would have the ability to serve as the regulator of trade and business that Congress intended it be. Much, perhaps even the great...
