Monday, February 21, 2011

JRR Tolkien Estate Threatens Lawsuit Over Book Featuring Tolkien As Character

Here (from hollywoodreporter.com).

Kreativität und Urheberrecht in der Netzökonomie

W.Schulz, T.Büchner, hier

Russian Supreme Arbitration Court upholds finding of Gazprom Neft's abuse of dominant position

ФАС России press release, in English and Russian

An Economic Defense of Flexibility in IPR Licensing: Contracting Around 'First Sale' in Multilevel Production Settings

A.Layne-Ferrar, here.

Open Attribute, a simple way to attribute Creative Commons licensed works on the web

A.Neill, here.

Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges in a Networked World

H.Clinton, here.

Statut d’hébergeur de fuzz.fr aussi confirmé par par la Cour de cassation

Arrêt n° 164 du 17 février 2011 (09-13.202) - Cour de cassation - Première chambre civile

Thursday, February 03, 2011

EU Advocate General Kokott on exclusive broadcasting rights

Cases C‑403/08 and C‑429/08 Football Association Premier League Ltd and Others v QC Leisure and Others and Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd, here. Guardian report here.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Entente de partage de clientèle dans le secteur maritime: la court d'appel de Paris réforme la décision de l'Autorité de la concurrence

Décision du 15 avril 2010 relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre dans le secteur de la manutention pour le transport de conteneurs au port du Havre et Arrêt de la Cour d'appel de Paris du 20 janvier 2011.

Monday, January 10, 2011

WIPO Seminar Series on “The Economics of Intellectual Property”: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Intellectual Property and Litigation

Christine Greenhalgh, January 12, 2011 paper here.

A Brief Introduction to Competition Concerns in 'Pay-for-Delay' Settlement Agreements Between Brand-Name and Generic Drug Companies

R.Peritz, here.

The Capper-Volstead Act, Agricultural Cooperatives, and Antitrust Immunity

C.Varney, here.

Counterfactual Tests in Competition Law

C.Veljanovski, here.

Solving the Drug Settlement Problem: The Legislative Approach

M.A.Carrier, here.

Standards, Innovation Incentives, and the Formation of Patent Pools

K.M.Schmidt, here.

Politiques européennes de concurrence et économie sociale de marché

F.Marty, ici.

First evaluation of the impact of the Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights

Here.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Information Exchanges among Competitors

Antonio CAPOBIANCO, OECD Competition Division, Exchange of Information among Competitors: Antitrust Challenges (Presentation)
Monday December 13, 2010 - 2 pm
Conference Room, Economics Faculty - Trento University
Via Inama, 5 TRENTO

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Second Decade of the International Competition Network: Challenges Ahead?

Oliver BUDZINSKI, University of Southern Denmark, "The Governance of Global Competition:  Challenges for the Second Decade of the ICN"

Alessandra TONAZZI, Italian Competition Authority, "The Governance of Global Competition: ICN’s Next Decade"
Friday November 26, 2010 8:30 am
Trento Economics Faculty, Law Department
Room 3
via Verdi 53
Trento - Italy

ICN 2010 UNILATERAL CONDUCT WORKSHOP: LIVE WEBCAST

Agenda, Webcast.

Certification of a claim as a consumer class action following a bread price fixing cartel in South Africa dismissed

Here.

Senate's Inquiry into the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Franklins decision

Here (from Australian Competition Law)

AG Hamburg zu Urheberrechtsverletzungen durch RSS-Feeds

A. Schneider, hier.

The U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate on alleged smartphone-related patent infringements

Here.

Smart Wars - Um Smartphone-Technologien ist ein regelrechter Patentkrieg entbrannt

F.Müller, hier.

Current Issues in Competition and Consumer Protection Enforcement in the Retail Sector

J.T.Rosch, FTC, here.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Friday, November 05, 2010

ICN Unilateral Conduct Working Group's teleseminar on unilateral conduct in the pharmaceutical industry

Recording of the program and accompanying slide deck.

2010 Merger Guidelines: Empirical Analysis

J.Hausman, here.

Oracle raises price of an entry-level MySQL subscription significantly

Computerworld, here.

Cameron on reviewing IP laws to make them fit for the digital age

From the speech:
"The founders of Google have said they could never have started their company in Britain.
The service they provide depends on taking a snapshot of all the content on the internet at any one time and they feel our copyright system is not as friendly to this sort of innovation as it is in the United States.
Over there, they have what are called ‘fair-use’ provisions, which some people believe gives companies more breathing space to create new products and services.
So I can announce today that we are reviewing our IP laws, to see if we can make them fit for the internet age."
See also the IPO's press release on the scope of the review.