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FTC Defeats Qualcomm in Fight over Monopoly in Smartphone Chips
United States District Judge Lucy Koh ruled on May 22, 2019, after a 10-day bench trial in January, that Qualcomm has and abused “monopoly chip power”. Qualcomm Findings and Conclusions 5-22-19.
Who Cares About Passengers? Not the News.
Blawgletter has lately started scanning news reports about the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division's bid to block the minnow-eats-whale merger of U.S. Airways and American Airlines. Wowsers.
Let's start by saying we've found that the biz reporters have a not-very-good grasp of antitrust law. A terrible one in fact. They seem to think that whatever
Apple Fixed E-Book Prices, Trial Judge Rules
Did Apple collude with publishers to jack up the price of e-books?
You betcha, U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote ruled in Manhattan today after a three-week trial.
A damages trial will follow.
Apple pursued a nutty defense, which held that it and the publishers did no wrong
E-Books Case Draws WSJ Wrath
Talk about goofy.
Today's WSJ — The Wall Street Journal — includes a column that gets antitrust law so wrong you wonder why the paper's pundits, who include those who write the official editorials, bother.
The column in question takes aim at the U.S. Department of Justice's case that calls Apple and five book publishers
Stiff FTC Subpoena Beats Condom-Maker’s Challenges
Church & Dwight bills itself as "one of the fastest growing Consumer Packaged Goods companies" and as "a leader in the Household Consumer Products and Personal Care industry, with such brands as ARM & HAMMER, Trojan, First Response, Nair, Spinbrush, Oxi Clean, Orajel and more."
Note the "Trojan" bit.
In June 2009, the Federal Trade Commission
FERC Could Keep Price Caps for Gas Pipelines While Lifting Them for Shippers
The interstate natural gas pipeline system transports more than 36 trillion cubic feet a year.
May the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cap prices that interstate pipelines may charge shippers for moving natural gas but allow the shippers to resell at market prices?
The interstate pipelines thought not. And so they petitioned the D.C. Circuit
Intent to Deceive Shortfalls Send Two Patent Cases Back, Federal Circuit Holds
A U.S. patent grants a monopoly. It entitles the owner — often a company that employs the inventor, who assigns it to her employer, usually by contractual obligation — to practice the invention exclusively for a period of time. After the monopoly ends, though, anyone may use the invention. But during the monopoly period the
Do Merger Guidelines Matter in Monopolization Cases?
The head of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, Christine Varney, has done a lot to change the Division's orientation on enforcement of Sherman Act section 2, which makes monopolization and attempts to monopolize unlawful. A big step involved withdrawing the section 2 "report" that the AD issued under Ms. Varney's predecessor. She has also joined with