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Ninth Circuit Blocks Injunction Of NCAA Restrictions On Student Compensation

Posted  08/4/15
By Hamsa Mahendranathan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted the NCAA’s request for a stay of a district court injunction that would have permitted colleges to begin compensating student athletes for the use of their names, images, and likenesses. Last year, Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found that the NCAA violated antitrust law...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  08/3/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Two major hospital systems might be merging.  Continuing the trend in healthcare-provider consolidation, Providence Health & Services and St. Joseph Health announced Friday that they had signed a letter of intent to merge. The health systems cautioned that they were only in the “very early stages” of...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  07/29/15
Anthem Inc. to buy Cigna Corp. for over $54 billion.  If approved by antitrust regulators, the deal would create the largest health insurer in the country, covering 53 million lives.  The acquisition closely follows Aetna’s announcement, at the beginning of the month, that it would buy Humana for $37 billion.  Health insurers are seeking to justify this latest wave of industry consolidation on the ground that...

English Cartel Damages Claim Takes an Extraordinary Turn

Posted  07/29/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office by Richard Pike Those in need of some light relief before heading off on vacation could do worse than read the latest judgment in the never-ending saga that is the English air cargo litigation.  We on the European side of the Atlantic have been known to indulge in some schadenfreude about the antics of the lesser members of the US judiciary.  We don’t get...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  07/20/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Accusing Amazon of Antitrust Violations, Authors and Booksellers Demand Inquiry.  Five years after Amazon asked antitrust regulators to investigate leading publishers, groups representing thousands of authors, agents and independent booksellers are asking the United States Department of Justice to...

European Commission Doubles Down On Antitrust Investigations Against Giant U.S. Chipmaker Qualcomm

Posted  07/17/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Richard Pike and Yulia Tosheva The European Commission (“EC”) announced yesterday it has opened two antitrust investigations into possible abusive behavior by the U.S. technology company Qualcomm, the world's largest supplier of baseband chipsets. Investigation into rebates The first investigation will examine whether Qualcomm abused its dominant...

European Court Of Justice Holds Standard-Essential Patent Owner Can Abuse Its Position By Seeking To Enjoin Infringement

Posted  07/16/15
By Seth D. Greenstein The European Court of Justice ruled today that the owner of a standard-essential patent abuses its dominant position when it seeks an injunction in an action for patent infringement against an infringer that has expressed genuine willingness to license the patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (“FRAND”) terms. In Case C-170/13, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. v. ZTE Corp....

European Commission Slams Cargo Train Operators With 49 Million Euro Fine In Cartel Settlement

Posted  07/15/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Yulia Tosheva and Richard Pike The European Commission (“EC”) today imposed fines totalling 49,154,000 euros on Express Interfracht, part of the Austrian railway company Österreichische Bundesbahnen, and Schenker, a subsidiary of the leading German railway operator Deutsche Bahn, in a cartel settlement. Express Interfracht and Schenker agreed to pay...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  07/13/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. MasterCard Faces Antitrust Charges in E.U.  European antitrust officials have filed formal charges against MasterCard, accusing the company of harming consumers and retailers by setting artificially high fees for credit card transactions in Europe.  The European Commission said MasterCard had prevented...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  07/6/15
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Airlines Under Justice Dept. Investigation Over Possible Collusion.  Federal prosecutors are investigating possible collusion among airlines to limit seating, two years after the U.S. Department of Justice approved the latest in a wave of airline mergers, saying the combination would benefit consumers. ...
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