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January 23, 2015
Partner Ankur Kapoor was quoted in the Law360 article, Nexium Ruling Offers Road Map For Pay-For-Delay Classes. Click here to read the article.Baseball Antitrust Exemption Extends 93-Year Winning Streak In Federal Courts
Posted 01/21/15
By Nneka Ukpai
Although federal courts may consider baseball’s antitrust exemption to make about as much sense as the infield fly rule, last week’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in City of San Jose v. Commissioner of Baseball shows that courts still consider themselves bound to invoke that anachronistic exemption to call antitrust plaintiffs out.
According to a three-judge panel...
January 21, 2015
Partner Matthew Cantor was quoted in Law360 article, Libor Clears Appeal Path For Benchmark Manipulation Cases. Click here to read the article.European Commission Announces Agreement To Cap Interchange Fees For Card-Based Payments
Posted 01/7/15
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office
By Yulia Tosheva and James Ashe-Taylor
The European Commission has announced that the European Parliament and the European Council have reached a long-awaited political agreement on the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on Interchange Fees for Card-based Payment Transactions.
The Regulation will introduce maximum fees for four-party card schemes’...
January 7, 2015
Jeff Shinder, Managing Partner of Constantine Cannon's New York office, was quoted in the Global Competition Review article, AUO seeks simultaneous LCD follow-on trials. Click here to read the article.Reasonableness Of Licensing Royalties Is On Trial As Courts And Standard-Setting Organizations Wrestle With Standard-Essential Patents
Posted 01/5/15
By David Golden
The ongoing battle over what constitutes a “reasonable” licensing royalty for standard-essential patents has now been joined by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with its decision in Ericsson, Inc. v. D-Link Systems, Inc., concerning the alleged infringement of patents essential to the ubiquitous Wi-Fi networking technology.
This definitional battle is also being fought in...
Antitrust Mediation
Posted 01/1/15
Global Competition Litigation Review (Volume 8, Issue 4, 2015)
December 18, 2014
Partner Ankur Kapoor was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, Lawsuit Alleges Price Gouging by Maker of Hepatitis Drug . Click here to read the article.European Commission Seeks To Stamp Out Envelope Cartel With Fines Totaling 19.48 Million Euros
Posted 12/17/14
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office
By Ana Rojo Prada and Richard Pike
The European Commission has announced that it has imposed fines totaling 19.48 million euros on five European envelope producers for coordinating prices and allocating customers through an anticompetitive cartel.
The Commission imposed fines on the five companies – Bong (of Sweden), GPV and Hamelin (both of France),...