RPM is one of the hottest areas of competition law in the world. In our last issue we looked at a Chinese landmark case and started our global review, moving on to SE…

Pablo Figueroa, Andres Font Galarza, Frank Maier-Rigaud, Nov 14, 2013 Resale or retail price maintenance refers to an agreement between an upstream and a downstream firm in a vertical value…

Laura Atlee, Yves Botteman, Nov 14, 2013 The European Commission’s 2010 Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying Guidelines on Vertical Restraints created a certain amount of excitement with the…

CFilippo Amato, Nov 14, 2013 Suspicions regarding the use of resale price maintenance in vertical agreements, i.e., agreements between a supplier and its distributors, have long existed in competition law.…

Ozlem Fidanboylu, Christian Riis-Madsen, Nov 14, 2013 The 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Leegin set in motion a landslide by overturning a 96-year old precedent. After identifying that the probability…

Charles Saumon, Nov 14, 2013 On October 10, 2013, the Paris Court of Appeals confirmed a landmark decision of the French Competition Authority condemning three leading manufacturers active in the…

Leiv Blad, Margaret Sheer, Nov 13, 2013 In 2007, the United States Supreme Court jettisoned 96 years of precedent and held that minimum resale price maintenance (“RPM”) agreements were not per…

Thomas Lambert, Michael Sykuta, Nov 13, 2013 The battle over the proper legal treatment of minimum resale price maintenance continues to rage in the United States. Despite the U.S. Supreme…

Erika Douglas, Mark Katz, Nov 14, 2013 The Canadian Competition Act was amended in 2009 to repeal the former criminal prohibition against price maintenance and introduce a new civil “reviewable practice”…