Tag: Monopolization
Montana Man Pleads Guilty To Criminal Attempted Monopolization
The president of a paving and asphalt contractor based in Billings, Montana, has pleaded guilty to attempting to monopolize the market for highway crack-sealing...
DOJ Antitrust Division “Absolutely” Prepared to Criminally Charge Illegal Monopolization Conduct
By: Jon Cieslak (The Antitrust Attorney)
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division made waves recently by indicating that it is prepared to bring criminal charges for...
The Economic Rationale of United States v. Google
By Germán Bet, Roger D. Blair & Javier D. Donna (University of Florida)
In 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust suit against...
Mergers Involving Nascent Competition
By A. Douglas Melamed (Stanford)
Mergers involving nascent competition are a hot topic in antitrust circles, especially in light of the pending FTC case against...
Algorithmic Predation and Exclusion
By Thomas K. Cheng (The University of Hong Kong) & Julian Nowag (Lund University)
The debate about the implications of algorithms on competition law enforcement...
Making Sense of Monopolization: Antitrust and the Digital Economy
By Daniel Francis (Harvard)
For more than a century, courts and scholars have searched without success for a general definition of monopolization. Some proposals rely...
FTC Charges Broadcom With Illegal Monopolization
The Federal Trade Commission said Friday it has proposed to settle charges against Broadcom for allegedly monopolizing markets for semiconductor components for television and...
FTC v. Qualcomm: Origins and Problems
By Matthew Spitzer (Northwestern University)1
The
District Court’s opinion finding Qualcomm guilty of antitrust violations in a
case brought by the Federal Trade Commission2 is
on appeal to...
Innovation by Dominant Firms in the Market: Damned If You Don’t…...
Posted by Social Science Research Network
Innovation by Dominant Firms in the Market: Damned If You Don't... But Damned If You Do?
By Francisco Marcos (IE...
Tying, Exclusivity, and Standard-Essential Patents
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Tying, Exclusivity, and Standard-Essential Patents
By Erik Hovenkamp (Harvard Law School)
Abstract: When a technological standard is adopted, implementers...
