by 21st Century Competition | Aug 11, 2014 | Global Blogs
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...
by 21st Century Competition | Aug 11, 2014 | Global Blogs
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...
by 21st Century Competition | Aug 11, 2014 | Global Blogs
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...
by 21st Century Competition | Aug 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 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...
by 21st Century Competition | Aug 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
A roundup of last week’s newsworthy job changes, agency hires and law firm openings across the antitrust world. < ul> August 4 – A group of RBS bankers file a motion to toss market manipulation suits. August 4 – Auto parts manufacturer...
by 21st Century Competition | Aug 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
United Arab Emirates-based Etihad is reportedly set to lock down plans to acquire a 49 percent stake in financially struggling Italian airline Alitalia. Reports said Friday that Etihad will invest about $1.6 billion in the Italian company in part of a broader company...
