In a 2013 opinion in Microsoft v. Motorola, Judge James Robart calculated “reasonable and nondiscriminatory” or RAND royalties that Motorola could lawfully charge Microsoft for licenses to use Motorola patents that were essential to two industry standards. Although the case involved only a...

Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...

Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...

Minority shareholdings have been on the regulatory agenda of competition authorities for some time. Recent empirical studies, however, draw attention to a new, thought provoking theory of harm: common ownership by institutional investors holding small, parallel equity positions in several...

To many it seems anomalous that a communist regime like China would adopt an antitrust law. It seems even more bizarre that China would apply its antitrust provisions to regulate its state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This simplistic view, however, fails to reflect the complexity of the Chinese...

The aims and objectives of this study are to answer the question whether the recent reforms in European competition policy are likely to help improving the effectiveness of competition policy in Europe to thereby increase the intensity of competition and hence competitiveness in the East

Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...

The present paper summarizes the finding of the survey on competition policy strength in Arab countries. For this first of a kind analysis, UNESCWA used the established OECD instrument to complement the existing global dataset on competition policy and to provide decision-makers in the Arab...

This Article examines the compatibility of Western antitrust models as incorporated in China’s first comprehensive antitrust law – the Antimonopoly Law (“AML”) – with China’s local conditions. It identifies three forces that shape competition law and policy in China: China’s...