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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  08/24/15
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Microsoft files antitrust suit against InterDigital in patent feud.  Microsoft is alleging that InterDigital has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license technology considered essential to mobile phone communications.  Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against...				 
				 					 

						
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  08/17/15
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

FTC offers first-ever guidance on 'unfair competition.'  The Federal Trade Commission has released unprecedented guidance on what constitutes "unfair competition," but has stopped short of offering the level of detail long sought by businesses.  The guidance is actually the first attempt by the FTC to...				 
				 					 

						
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The Antitrust Week in Review

				
Posted  08/10/15
								

				 
								 				U.S. hospitals urge DOJ antitrust probe of Anthem-Cigna deal.  U.S. hospitals are urging antitrust regulators to consider whether health insurer Anthem’s planned acquisition of rival Cigna would boost healthcare costs.  In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, the American Hospital Association, the hospital industry's largest lobbying group, said combining the No. 1 and No. 5 health insurers threatens to...				 
				 				
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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....				 
				 					 

						
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