Commentary Elsewhere: from other writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Journal of European Competition Law & Practice – Advance Access: State Aid Litigation before EU Courts (2004-2012): A Statistical Overview “”
Commentary Elsewhere: from other writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From CPI RSS: Patently Obvious: Why Seeking Injunctions on Standard-Essential Patents Subject to a FRAND Commitment Can Violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act ” Technical standards are a necessary exception to a competitive marketplace based upon feature differentiation, but they pose risks because of the market power they confer on holders of standard-essential patents (“SEPs,” which generally speaking are technically essential and must be licensed in order to implement the standard). This is particularly true when the standard is widely adopted and there are no reasonable alternatives to its use. In such circumstances, a SEP owner can use the […]
From CPI RSS: Supplement to Platform Economics: The Economics of Multi-Sided Businesses “ (Click here for a PDF version of the article.) I’ve written the following articles on multi-sided platforms since the publication of Platform Economics: Essays on Multi-Sided Businesses in December 2011. Hopefully, you’ll find them useful. The first article, the “Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platforms,” provides a survey of the literature on multi-sided platforms that is relevant to competition policy through the end of 2012. The other three articles cover different aspects of multi-sided platforms. “Governing Bad Behavior” is about the use of rules and regulations by platforms to govern their communities. “Economics of Vertical Restraints for Multi-Sided Platforms” examines the pro-competitive and anti-competitive explanations for vertical restraints […]
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Section 5 Guidelines: Fixing a Problem that Doesn’t Exist? “Sharis Pozen (Skadden) and Anne Six ask Section 5 Guidelines: Fixing a Problem that Doesn’t Exist? ABSTRACT: When Congress enacted the Federal Trade Commission Act in 1914, almost 25 years after enacting the Sherman Act, it purposely created a different…”