| October 2013, Volume 3, Number 10 |
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| We’re excited to welcome a new competition blog this month! Kevin Coates has started 21st Century Competition; we’ve compiled a selection of his recent posts below. The rest of our collection is indeed a motley assortment, with tech and SEPs front and center, while confidentiality, parental liability, price-fixing, exclusionary conduct, and market definition provide the balance. |
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Europe Aims to Regulate the Cloud
The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year. They do now.
Danny Hakim (NY Times) |
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Commissioner Objects to FTC’s ‘Novel’ Merger Challenge
The FTC “challenges the proposed transaction based upon what must be acknowledged as a novel theory—that is, that the merger will substantially lessen competition in a market that does not today exist.”
Jenna Greene (The BLT) |
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A family affair: parental liability for joint ventures
Both the Commission and the CJEU have now made it resoundingly clear that it will difficult for parent companies to escape liability for the conduct of its subsidiaries and joint venture companies.
Jason Pobjoy (Competition Bulletin) |
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Defining Exclusionary Conduct
But the element common to the two unilateral offenses—“exclusionary conduct”—remains essentially undefined.
Thom Lambert (Truth on the Market) |
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Remedy
Assuming that the whole fuzz around the Google investigation is about tactics seeking to abusively deny search scale to rivals, the remedy to restore competition may not be where the Commission and parties are eyeing.
Nicolas Petit (Chillin’ Competition) |
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