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European Songwriters Sing Out Against Producers’ Alleged Blacklisting

Posted  03/14/12
An alliance of European composers and songwriters is alleging that major broadcasters and production companies are threatening them with blacklisting if the artists don’t give up all the rights to their work in exchange for commissions. Taking aim at the practice known as “coercive commissioning,” the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) has filed a complaint asking the European Union’s...

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Europeans Checking MathWorks’ Competition Calculations In Software Market

Posted  03/7/12
The European Commission (the “EC”) has announced an investigation into whether The MathWorks, a U.S. software company, abused its dominant position by preventing competitor interoperability with its products. The EC is investigating whether MathWorks – a leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists – violated Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European...

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Blowing The Whistle On Cartels

Posted  02/21/12
The question of whether U.S. antitrust enforcement should emulate foreign whistleblower rewards programs as part of a crackdown on cartels is analyzed in a recent article by a Constantine Cannon attorney: Making it Easier to Whistle While You Work. Cartel detection and prosecution are top priorities for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“Antitrust Division”) – regardless of which...

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European Commission Seeks Comments On A United Payments Of Europe

Posted  02/6/12
The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, is asking for comments about how to overcome obstacles to a modern, integrated card payments system across Europe. The European Commission is requesting these comments on its “green paper” assessing the current payment landscape in Europe.  This initiative covers all payments – including e-commerce and mobile payments – made with a credit...

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South Korean Antitrust Enforcers Sets Sights On Intellectual Property

Posted  02/3/12
While many international businesses are used to navigating through the tricky shoals of United States antitrust enforcement and intellectual property (“IP”) law, they are now finding they need to navigate through South Korean regulation as well. As South Korean firms have become increasingly prominent players in the global technology marketplace, the Korean government has become an increasingly prominent player...

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Brits Investigating Whether Concrete Markets Are Crushing Competition

Posted  02/1/12
The United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is calling in reinforcements to expand Great Britain’s investigation into whether competition is being blocked in the markets for concrete and its main ingredients, aggregate and cement. The OFT has referred Great Britain’s aggregates, cement, and ready-mix concrete markets to the U.K.’s Competition Commission, an independent body that conducts in-depth...

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Thomson Reuters Offers Settlement In RIC Investigation

Posted  01/3/12
Thomson Reuters, the worldwide provider of business and financial information, has offered to settle an EU antitrust probe.  The two-year old investigation is focused on the company's system of requiring customers to use Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) to access financial data.  The codes are used to identify financial instruments and indices for which a consumer wants to retrieve data. The European Commission...

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Smartphone Patent Wars Spreading Around The World

Posted  12/23/11
Right now, the smartphone patent wars are raging across the globe. For example, Apple recently prevailed in a skirmish before the International Trade Commission that could theoretically stop the importation into the United States of all smartphones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system.  In Germany, Motorola Mobility, which Google is in the process of acquiring, won a victory against Apple for patent...

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European Commission Rolls Out Investigation Of Bearings Makers

Posted  11/21/11
The European Commission recently raided SKF AB, Schaeffler Group, and the offices of other European rolling bearings makers to investigate whether they violated European antitrust rules. The companies manufacture bearings for the automotive and aerospace industries. The Commission is investigating whether the companies violated European Union (“EU”) laws prohibiting cartels and restrictive business practices...

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Europeans And Feds Overhaul Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Enforcement

Posted  11/1/11
October was a busy month for European and U.S. antitrust enforcers, who revised “best practices” aimed at enhancing the efficiency of antitrust investigations on both sides of the Atlantic. First, on October 14, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission (the “EC”) issued an updated set of “best practices” that they use to coordinate merger reviews...

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