by 21st Century Competition | Apr 23, 2014 | Global Blogs
Hogan Lovells The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (“COMESA”) is a supranational organisation with 19 Member States: Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda,...
by 21st Century Competition | Apr 22, 2014 | Global Blogs
Jones Day Co-authored by: Alexandre Verheyden, Bernard Amory and Laurent de Muyter, Jones Day, Brussels The European Union has a new regime for assessing technology licensing agreements under EU competition law. The new rules include a new technology transfer block...
by 21st Century Competition | Apr 22, 2014 | Global Blogs
Monsieur le Professeur Nicolas Petit has just published a piece titled “Stealth Licensing”- Or Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation Squeezing Patent Rights. In this paper he illustrates his points by resorting to metaphors on black swans and butterflys (read the last...
by 21st Century Competition | Apr 18, 2014 | Global Blogs
The FTC’s Deborah Feinstein comments on Jostens and American Achievement Corporation abandoning their class ring deal. The FTC agrees to re-open and modify its 1998 order in the Toys “R” Us case. The FTC gets a divestiture in a generic drug deal. DOJ gets...
by 21st Century Competition | Apr 16, 2014 | Global Blogs
On March 27, in the latest major development in Motorola Mobility’s lawsuit alleging price-fixing of liquid crystal display modules (LCDs), a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit, including renowned antitrust jurist Judge Richard Posner, simultaneously...
by 21st Century Competition | Apr 14, 2014 | Global Blogs
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...
