We examine how standardization in the information and communication technologies affects the inventive activities of …-contributing firms have 18%-20% less inventive output in the same technological area. This negative effect of standardization in a …

technical protections a®ect the pricing of content, and consequently, why content users, content vendors, and antitrust …

substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies …

contract. I find that the standard proposed by the Antitrust Modernization Commission is likely to result in many cases of …

-consumer price discrimination; and (iii) inter-product price discrimination, and assess the antitrust liability that these practices … may entail. We also discuss the impact on consumers and competition, as well as potential antitrust liability of bundling …

We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …

We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … the patented invention. Economic theory suggests that it is inappropriate to immunize a patent holder from antitrust …. Courts have expressed their reluctance to scrutinize a patent holder’s innovations and design changes, because of the …

This paper discusses how antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …