Monday, February 28, 2011

IN REGULATORS WE TRUST: THE SUPREME COURT’S NEW APPROACH TO IMPLIED ANTITRUST IMMUNITY

R.Brunell, here.

Greece's Competition Commission fines crisis cartel in the fish farming sector

Here. See also Greece's contribution on the topic of crisis cartels to the OECD 10th GFC

Au sujet du pré-rapport parlementaire sur la neutralité du Net

La Quadrature du Net, ici

OECD 10th Global Forum on Competition


Forum documents.
In particular:
Session I Cross-border Merger Control: Challenges for Developing and Emerging Economies
Session III Crisis Cartels

UNDERSTANDING THE RAND COMMITMENT

D.Lichtman, here.

Materialien zum deutschen und europäischen Wettbewerbsrecht

F.Säcker, hier

WHY (EVER) DEFINE MARKETS?

K.Kaplow, here ("The thesis of this Article is that the market definition process should be abandoned").

Liberation by software

E.Moglen, here (guardian.co.uk).

World Blind Union suspends participation in WIPO & EU Stakeholder discussions, pending agreement at WIPO on legal framework

KEI, here

Digitale Langzeitarchivierung als Thema für den 3. Korb zum Urheberrechtsgesetz

Nestor, hier

Address to the Blue Sky Conference on future directions in Copyright law

R.McClelland, here.

WIPO pushes for greater access to books for the vision impaired

A.Reid, here.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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