The co-legislators adopted the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in July 2022. The text is landmark legislation that imposes a list of ex-ante obligations and interdictions on large online platforms acting as “gatekeepers” in some core platform services (CPS). Yet, the DMA also imposes an obligation...

This comment is submitted to Korea's Fair Trade Commission ("KFTC") by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at George Mason University School of Law in response to the KFTC's December 16, 2015 amendments to its Review Guidelines on Unfair Exercise of Intellectual Property Rights. The GAI...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School at George Mason University to the Vietnam Competition Authority on the proposed amendments to the Competition Law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The GAI Competition Advocacy Program provides a...

On the first of August of 2008, the Chinese Antimonopoly Law (hereinafter AML) entered into force. Great expectations were created regarding the impact of the new provisions on business operations in China and international transactions of companies active in the Chinese market. The AML set up,...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School, George Mason University in response to the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council of the People's Republic of China's public consultation on its draft Anti-Monopoly Guidelines Against Abuse of...

This comment is submitted to Korea's Fair Trade Commission ("KFTC") by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at George Mason University School of Law in response to the KFTC's December 17, 2014 revisions to its Review Guidelines on Unfair Exercise of Intellectual Property Rights. The GAI...

This thesis addresses Big Data issues in competition law in three chapters. Chapter one proposes new economic tools to define the relevant market and the market power in the data-driven economy. It argues the need to reform the relevant market and the market power by considering new tools and a...

One of the most profound changes in the industrial landscape in the last decade has been the growth of business ecosystems- groups of connected firms, drawing on (digital) platforms which leverage their complementors and lock-in their customers, exploiting the “bottlenecks” that emerge in...

This chapter aims to review data-driven mergers including, but not limited to, major conglomerates involving large scale of individual user data, known as ‘big data', by Facebook (WhatsApp), Microsoft (Yahoo!, Skype and LinkedIn), Google (Double Click), TomTom (Tele Atlas), Publicis/Omnicon,...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School, George Mason University in response to the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China's public consultation on the February...