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Feds Nix High-Tech Non-Solicitation Agreements

Posted  10/1/10
Employees at six high-tech companies can be expecting more cold calls with job offers, thanks to a settlement engineered by the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”). DOJ’s Antitrust Division has reached a settlement agreement with Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, and Disney’s Pixar unit, which will enable those companies to compete more vigorously for each other’s employees.  According to the DOJ, the...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement,

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EU Top Court Says No Attorney-Client Privilege For In-House Counsel

Posted  09/29/10
The Court of Justice, the highest court in the European Union (‘EU’), has ruled that communications between corporations and their in-house counsel are not protected by the Legal Professional Privilege (‘LPP’), the European version of the attorney-client privilege. The Court’s decision in Case C-550/07 P, Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals v. Commission, means that in-house counsel will not be able...

Tagged in: International Competition Issues,

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Online Gambling Companies Win Big As EU Throws Out Germany’s Gambling Monopoly

Posted  09/24/10
Online and other private gambling companies are looking forward to their winnings as a result of the ruling by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (ECJ) that Germany’s state-run gambling monopoly violates European Union law. The EU’s highest court has ruled that Germany’s justification for the state monopoly on gambling rang hollow and struck down the law in a landmark decision that opens the door to...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement, International Competition Issues,

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Skyhook Sues Google Over Location Positioning Technology

Posted  09/22/10
The competitive battle between Google and Skyhook Wireless to provide cutting-edge location positioning technology for such devices as mobile phones and laptops has found a new location for conflict – the courtroom. Skyhook, a company that provides mobile software for determining location using nearby Wi-Fi signals, has filed a lawsuit against in Massachusetts Superior Court alleging that Google unfairly...

Tagged in: Antitrust Litigation,

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Dairy Farmers Milk Class Certification In Antitrust Suit

Posted  09/20/10
A class of more than 4,500 dairy farmers spread across 11 southeastern states in two geographic markets has been certified by Judge J. Ronnie Greer of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in a case alleging a conspiracy to monopolize the production, marketing and processing of milk. The dairy farmers allege multiple claims of antitrust conspiracy against Dean Foods Company (the nation's...

Tagged in: Monopolization,

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Europeans May Exterminate Sara Lee’s Insecticide Deal

Posted  09/17/10
The European Union’s antitrust regulator is setting its sights on a $200 million deal for a partial sale of an insecticide business owned by Sara Lee, the food company, to S.C. Johnson & Son, which chiefly makes home-care products. Both companies are based in the United States, and a European Commission press release acknowledged that the transaction may not “have a Community dimension.”  Even so, the...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement, International Competition Issues,

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Canadians Consider Changes In Merger Review Practices

Posted  09/15/10
The Canadian Competition Bureau has announced that it will consider possible revisions to the Canadian merger enforcement guidelines. The Bureau will hold a series of discussions on whether its merger enforcement guidelines issued in 2004 are a good reflection of current Canadian merger review practices.  The purpose of such guidelines is to evaluate the potential competitive effect of mergers. The decision...

Tagged in: International Competition Issues,

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Defendants Win Class Certification Battle Of The Experts In Plastics Antitrust Case

Posted  09/13/10
A federal judge has declared a defense expert the winner in a battle of the experts over class certification in a suit alleging price-fixing conspiracies in the markets for plastics additives. Relying heavily on expert testimony, U. S. District Court Judge Legrome D. Davis for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class of direct purchasers of organotin heat stabilizers...

Tagged in: Price Fixing,

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Federal Court Denies GE’s Request To Turn Off The Lights In Mitsubishi Heavy’s Mighty Wind Case

Posted  09/9/10
A federal judge has denied General Electric Company’s request to pull the plug on Mitsubishi Heavy Limited’s potential billion-dollar case alleging GE has tried to snuff out competition in the wind turbine market. United States District Court Judge J. Leon Holmes in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has denied GE’s motion to dismiss an attempted monopolization case brought by Mitsubishi.  Mitsubishi alleges that GE...

Tagged in: Intellectual Property Law and Antitrust, Monopolization,

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Second Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc In Cipro Reverse-Payment Litigation

Posted  09/7/10
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied rehearing en banc today of its recent decision in the reverse-payment case of Arkansas Carpenters Health and Welfare Fund v. Bayer AG (In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation) – despite the original three-judge appellate panel’s extraordinary invitation to the parties to submit briefs requesting rehearing by the entire court. The case...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation, Intellectual Property Law and Antitrust,

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