July 2013, Volume 3, Number 7 |
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Really active this month – Court decisions on reverse payments and eBooks, U.K.’s competition redesign, Becker & Posner on patent trolls, the destruction of Microsoft’s monopoly, municipalities’ lack of antitrust immunity, and a question: Are sports anti-doping rules an antitrust violation? |
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Not Going to Wait Anymore The clear issue is that our patent system is spitting out patents that the courts don’t think should be issued. Adam Miller (Upward Pricing Pressure) |
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Reverse Payments in EU and US Antitrust Law Interestingly, the FTC wasn’t able to give a satisfactory answer to a very pertinent question asked by Justice Sotomayor at the hearing: “Why is the rule of reason so bad?”) Alfonso Lamadrid (Chillin’ Competition) |
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Becker and Posner on Patent Trolls
On Reforming the Patent System The patent system as practiced in the United States is too broad, too loose, and too expensive. Gary Becker (The Becker-Posner Blog) |
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Patent Trolls – Posner It is extremely difficult to discern any possible social benefit from trolls, and extremely easy to discern substantial social costs. Richard Posner (The Becker-Posner Blog) |
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The U.K. Restructuring
Competition Policy as a Cattle Market The CMA is treated as an arm of the state, or perhaps government, which has a role to perform in changing the way the economy works. Cosmo Graham (Competition Law Blog) |
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Privatized Regulation and Antitrust Even though municipalities can be thought of as an unusual type of state agency, the Supreme Court has never authoritatively decided how to treat state agencies generally under antitrust law. Sasha Volokh (The Volokh Conspiracy) |
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