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 …

aggressive antitrust oversight over further mergers and consolidations, assuring that more germ plasm is in the public domain …

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 …, that is, buyers’ collusion to exercise their market power to decrease the price of the products they are going to buy from … suppliers by depressing the quantity of input purchased artificially. Drawing on microeconomic theory and antitrust law, the …

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 …