We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patentholder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … patentedinvention. Economic theory suggests that it is inappropriate to immunizea patent holder from antitrust liability when it … innovations and their reluctance to second-guess themarketplace. However, applying traditional antitrust principles, courtshave …

restraints are antitrust violations and demonstrates that the economic justifications for merchant restraints are unfounded …

-based communication. The paper examines the competitive aspects of B2B from the view point of the antitrust law and analyzes oligopsony … suppliers by depressing the quantity of input purchased artificially. Drawing on microeconomic theory and antitrust law, the … interdisciplinary work in the paper explores the implications of oligopsony, or buying power, for antitrust policy. The paper offers a …

questions:(1) How does the existing antitrust-law in the United States, Germany, and the European Union affect the behavior of … relevant interestgroups? (2) Is it possible to improve the efficiency of the existing antitrust-laws in Germany and in the EU … by introducing an privat action clause comparable to the US-antitrust-laws? …

section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust act concerning the treatment of ET three times, oscillating between a "rule of reason … trades firms that are involved in ET related antitrust Litigation. When these firms win (lose) their own ET case, they …