by Kevin Coates | Apr 18, 2014 | Abuse, Antitrust, Commentary, Predation, Predatory Innovation
Sophie Lawrance of Bristows has written a post on the US Department of Justice investigation into high frequency trading, a practice most recently brought into public view by Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys. In addition to saying nice things about this blog,...
by Kevin Coates | Mar 7, 2014 | Abuse, Antitrust, Commentary, Discounts, Equally Efficient Competitor
A post in another place about Areeda’s article on essential facilities – “an epithet in need of limiting principles” – reminded me that limiting principles are not only needed to decrease the risks of over-enforcement. Areeda’s...
by Kevin Coates | Mar 4, 2014 | Abuse, Antitrust, Commentary, Predatory Innovation
Alfonso Lamadrid on Chillin Competition, commented earlier today on an interesting paper by Javier Berasategi bringing together issues of competition law, supermarkets and technology. In passing he noted that I’d already brought groceries and tech together with...
by Kevin Coates | Jan 20, 2014 | Abuse
Most press comment has been on the Commission’s investigation into Google’s search practices. The Commission has another pending case, however, into Google’s handling of the Android operating system. Alfonso Lamadrid of Garrigues (disclosure: a...
by Kevin Coates | Oct 28, 2013 | Abuse, Featured
Several recent Commission cases and Court judgments suggest a new way of looking at some abuse cases – as a form of estoppel. The Court of Justice’s preliminary ruling in Telia Sonera, holding that a margin squeeze can be abusive even absent a duty to...
