Jurisdiction: US

The march of the Random Penguin

January 15, 2013 | 2 Comments

There’s a new corporate marriage on the horizon, and the pre-nup has been signed on the dotted line.  In late October 2012, Penguin and Random House, two of the world’s largest English language book publishers,...

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No more delay on reverse payments

January 11, 2013 | 1 Comments

Louise Beange has written an interesting post on our sister blog, IP Whiteboard, about the decision by the US Supreme Court to hear a dispute over the legality of ‘pay-for-delay’ or reverse-payment agreements between patent...

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Who’s up for Round 2?

January 9, 2013 | 0 Comments

After the FTC’s comments on the car hire market in the Hertz/Thrifty merger (see our post on that merger here), the FTC may have a chance to show what it thinks about the relationship between...

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May the force be with Disney

December 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away a little film called Star Wars was released into theatres, spawning an entire universe of movies, books, comics and even a religious movement. 35 years...

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Rocky road ahead

December 10, 2012 | 0 Comments

Cadbury, Hershey, Mars and Nestlé, which collectively account for 76% of the chocolate market in the US, have been sued by a grocery wholesaler for price-fixing in the District Court of Kansas. The action was...

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Hertz has had to make some large concessions to get its merger with Thrifty Dollar approved by the FTC – being required to sell its Advantage Rent A Car business and giving up the rights...

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Back in 2005, a number of merchants commenced class actions against Visa and Mastercard, alleging the companies had conspired with US banks to fix credit card processing fees, at around 2 per cent of the...

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Google and the Art of War

October 9, 2012 | 1 Comments

Sun Tzu: Whether to concentrate or to divide your troops, must be decided by circumstances Google is busy fighting a war on multiple fronts, with antitrust investigations ongoing in the US, the EU, India, Argentina...

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Following the UK Office of Fair Trading’s decision not to refer Facebook’s proposed acquisition of Instagram to the Competition Commission (as we reported here), the US Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation without taking any action. The FTC announced...

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A court in the US has fined Taiwanese LCD manufacturer AU Optronics (“AUO”) $US 500 million for its involvement in a price fixing cartel. Two former company executives, Vice-Chairman Hsuan Bin Cheng and Executive Vice...

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