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the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …”). This comment addresses the questions contained in Section 5 of the RFI related to the use of presumptions in merger … enforcement. Our view is that an important objective of the agency’s horizontal merger enforcement guidelines is to ensure that …
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the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …”). The GAI welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the proposed changes to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (“HMGs … Section 14 of the Merger RFI, in which the Agencies pose two questions that go to the heart of the treatment of efficiencies …
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the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in response to their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. This Comment … addresses the questions related to Purpose, Harms and Scope. Our view is that the essential and defining purpose of merger … fundamental change in the character of merger analysis would require strong reasons for a profound departure from the present …
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the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI … important goal of both antitrust law and merger policy.Based on the existing evidence, an empirically supported basis for the … use of differential analyses for labor or for presumptions in labor markets does not clearly exist at this time. Merger …
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Commission's January 18, 2022, Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. Despite information and uncertainty problems with … exercise involved in potential/nascent competition cases should differ from a standard merger review. Third, analysis of …
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The recent increase in the demand for expert economic analysis in antitrust litigation has improved the welfare of economists; however, the law and economics literature is silent on the effects of economic complexity or judges’ economic training on judicial decision-making. We use a unique...
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PAEs have been much in the news because of certain practices that imply their demand for royalties is nothing more than extortion based upon the nuisance value of a lawsuit the PAE might bring, or explicitly threatens to bring, if no agreement is reached with the party practicing the patent. The...
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China's revised Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) went into effect in August 2022. In November, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) requested comments on its draft provisions for applying the AML in civil disputes. The Global Antitrust Institute's comment discusses the importance of the AML's newly expressed...
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This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School at George Mason University in response to the Communication from the Commission on Standard Essential Patents for a European Digitalized Economy. The GAI Competition Advocacy Program provides a wide-range of...
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