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Supreme Court Cites Spiderman In Ruling Against Post-Expiration Patent Royalties

Posted  06/23/15
By Robert S. Schwartz
Spiderman swung through the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday as Justice Elena Kagan liberally relied on the comic book superhero in the Court’s decision in Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc., reaffirming the Court’s 51-year-old rule precluding patent owners from collecting patent royalties on expired patents. In 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in that the statutory limit on...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  06/22/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.   One of the biggest health insurers in the United States, Anthem, has revealed that it is offering to buy rival Cigna for more than $47 billion in cash and stock.  The move is the latest step toward an expected consolidation among health insurance...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  06/15/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The attorneys general of New York and Connecticut have been investigating Apple’s negotiations with music companies for possible antitrust violations.  The attorneys general wanted to know whether Apple pressured the music labels — or whether the...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  06/8/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.   A federal investigation into whether the big movie theater chains are misusing their market clout to keep new films away from independent competitors is gaining steam.  Cinemark Holdings, the nation’s third-largest movie theater operator, disclosed in a...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  06/1/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The Federal Trade Commission has announced that its seven-year lawsuit against Cephalon, now owned by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, would be settled for $1.2 billion, the largest amount ever secured by the competition watchdog.  The...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  05/26/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.   Following on the heels of Comcast’s failed bid to buy Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications has struck a deal to buy Time Warner, an acquisition that would create a powerhouse in the consolidating American cable and broadband industry. ...

European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy Is Storming The Border Walls In E-Commerce

Posted  05/19/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Yulia Tosheva and James Ashe-Taylor The European Commission (“EC”) is taking aim at artificial restraints on cross-border online sales in the European Union with its of a formal investigation into e-commerce. The antitrust investigation, which was opened on May 6, 2015, will focus on barriers to cross-border online trade in goods and services...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  05/18/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to announce that Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and the Royal Bank of Scotland will collectively pay several billion dollars and plead guilty to criminal antitrust...

UK Competition and Market Authority Shuts Down MasterCard and Visa Probes Following Approval of European Interchange Fees Regulation

Posted  05/12/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Yulia Tosheva and James Ashe-Taylor The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) announced on Wednesday that it is closing its investigations into MasterCard’s and Visa’s multilateral interchange fees (“MIF”) on the grounds of administrative priorities. The CMA reached its UK domestic decision in light of the approval by the Council of the...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  05/11/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  European antitrust officials have opened an investigation into whether large technology companies are impeding competition in online shopping, the latest in a string of inquiries in Europe focused on the web’s biggest players.  According...
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