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- Scale of generic drug raids in France points to wider investigation
- The breadth of the European Commission's antitrust probe into the generic industry launched this week suggests it extends beyond a single deal and explores practices across the sector in France, industry experts said yesterday.Sanofi-Aventis, Ratio-pharm, Teva, Ranbaxy and Novartis all confirmed that their French offices had been raided by...
- External links 2009-10-07
- UK watchdog rules against ticketing merger
- The controversial merger deal struck by Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation suffered a further setback on Thursday after UK antitrust authorities poured cold water on their plans to create a live music powerhouse.In a provisional ruling, the Competition Commission said the tie-up between the top US ticket seller and...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Spanish GM workers agree restructuring
- General Motors' Spanish workers on Monday voted to approve Magna International's modified restructuring plan for their plant, bringing the Canadian company's takeover of Opel a step closer.Separately, the European Commission on Monday said it would rule by November 27 as to whether the deal complied with its antitrust...
- External links 2009-10-26
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- Symposium on antitrust and intellectual property: federal antitrust agencies and public policy toward antitrust and intellectual property.
- INTRODUCTION The relationship between the exclusive rights of intellectual property owners and monopoly power has generated a longstanding debate. In England, the 1624 Statute of Monopolies prohibited monopolies, but granted an exemption for "patent monopolies," which were nevertheless closely monitored and strictly construed....
- Research articles 1999-09-22
- FTC booklet simplifies antitrust legal language
- If the intricacies of the Federal Sherman Act or other antitrust laws are "foreign" to you, the Federal Trade Commission may have a booklet that can translate the incomprehensible legalese into semi-comprehensible governmentese. The booklet, which the FTC calls "The Plain English Guide to Antitrust Laws," contains 20 pages of...
- Research articles 1998-08-24
- Lessons from Microsoft.(antitrust case)(Brief Article)
- Dominant high-tech firms may not look like traditional monopolies. But they Dominant high-tech firms may not look like traditional monopolies. But they
- Research articles 1999-03-06
- The corrosive combination of nonprofit monopolies and U.S.-style health insurance: implications for antitrust and merger policy.(Health Policy's Fourth Dimension)
- I INTRODUCTION Rising health care costs are a matter of universal alarm, and in addition to the popular causal explanations, (1) Clark Havighurst's and my centerpiece paper for this symposium hereafter Distributive Injustices identifies a new culprit: "the corrosive...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- Monopolies in cyberspace: hands off Microsoft - for now.(Editorial)
- Microsoft is trying to capture the one software market it does not already dominate by distributing its Internet browser for free, causing cries of antitrust violations from browser innovator Netscape. Microsoft should be watched, but so far the market reMicrosoft is trying to capture the one software market it does...
- Research articles 1996-09-07
- The more the merrier? Charge cards. (antitrust case against credit card companies)(Brief Article)
- Charge cards monopolies THROWING unopened charge-card solicitations in the bin is a daily ritual for many Americans. So great is the ferocity of this junk-mail bombardment (over 3 billion letters a year at the last count) that the idea there is too little competition in the...
- Research articles 1998-10-10
- Property markets, monopolies & Microsoft
- The Court's judgement that Microsoft violated antitrust laws has profound consequences that extend beyond the computer industry. This renewed spotlight on the issues of market dominance raises questions for the advocates of consolidation in any and every industry.
- Research articles 2000-10-01
- Software Licensing, Business Practices at Heart of IBM Mainframe Criticism
- IBM critics say that Big Blue has used anticompetitive practices to keep its tight hold on the global mainframe market, including withholding software licenses to punish customer and competitors looking to bring legacy workloads to non-IBM systems, and closely tying its mainframe software and hardware. Federal regulators are now taking...
- News items 2009-10-08
- News Flash: 1945 Law Allows Concentration of Power in US Health Insurance
- Last week, some media reports noted that US Congressional Democrats countered an insurance industry study suggesting health care reform would cost much more than estimated by threatening a repeal of the McCarran-Ferguson Act's anti-trust exemption for health insurance. For example, in the New York Times Prescriptions Blog : ...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Creative Destruction and the new Money Trust
- "If U.S. banks were broken up and no longer too big to fail, they wouldn't be able to compete worldwide with other banks," says Forbes today. Not only is this wrong, but in fact the opposite is true. How do we know? History, for one. Standard Oil...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Levinson Leaves Google
- After Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's AAPL board of directors, it was perhaps inevitable that this would happen. This morning, Google GOOG announced that Arthur Levinson, the Genentech chairman who sits on the boards of both Apple and Google, would end his tenure ...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Intel and AMD Kiss and Make Up
- Intel and AMD today settled all of their various patent and antitrust disputes, with the top chipmaker paying out $1.25 billion to settle more than two decades of litigation. The two companies will also cross-license their technology over the next five years. The move helps Intel far more than AMD,...
- News items 2009-11-12
- SK Telecom obtains approval from the FTC for its buyout of Hanarotelecom.(KOREA)
- South Korea's antitrust regulator has said that it has given its conditional approval for nation's, SK Telecom Co's proposed acquisition of Hanarotelecom Inc. SK Teleocm is the biggest mobile operator in the country. The Fair Trade Commission FTC stated that the merger between the two firms...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- The Return of Big Oil - Exxon-Mobil merger represents dangerous thinking
- Robert M. La Follette Sr. dedicated his life to championing the public interest over private greed. Among his greatest foes were the monopolies that controlled markets, crushed competition, hiked prices, and hoarded the wealth of the nation. When the government ordered the breakup of the Standard Oil company in 1911,...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
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