A number of issues arise with regard to competition law and data protection, in particular in the online services context. For one, the relationship between competition law and privacy is yet to be fully understood and we discuss below the aspects of this conundrum: first, we look into the issue...

Competitor agreement not to solicit or hire each other's employees as well as agreements among competitors to poach a rival entity's key employees could be deemed as a violation of competition law principles (and in some jurisdictions, public policy doctrines).European and US jurisprudence shows...

Reverse payment agreements between patent-holding drug companies and their generic competitors have raised a conflict between patent law and competition law policies that is difficult to reconcile. The US Supreme Court decision in FTC v. Actavis is the first high court decision to have ruled on...

The increasing use of sector inquiries by competition agencies, including the Turkish Competition Authority, is a result of the fact that sector inquiries reveal the competitive dynamics of a given sector much better than the traditional competition law enforcement means. Pursuant to its...

Turkish Abstract: Rekabet Kurulu (“Kurul”) yeniden satış fiyatı tespitine ilişkin almış olduğu ilk kararlardaki “per se” ihlal yaklaşımını bir süre sonra bırakarak “rule of reason” analizine daha yakın bir analiz uygulamıştır. Ancak 2011 yılı ortalarında Anadolu...