The concept of significant market power (SMP) is enshrined by the European regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services to the extent to which national regulatory authorities (NRAs) in most circumstances can only regulate undertakings with SMP. According to this...

This essay gives an extensive examination of competition assessment and remedies in IPR-related merger cases in China, and aims to reveal the impact of IPRs on merger control under the framework of China's Anti-monopoly Law

The EC regulatory framework in the electronic communications sector is characterized by the concurrent application of competition law and sector specific regulatory rules. An institutional defect of this dual-regulatory model is the risk of duplication of procedures between competition...

Innovation was traditionally protected from its outcome under property law, in particular intellectual property law. However, this approach has gradually reached its limit when more innovation needs to be stimulated. One branch of competition law, namely antitrust law, has thus developed a...

Refusal to deal is in principle not prohibited under the EU competition law. Only in exceptional circumstances dominant undertaking would be charged with an obligation to deal. In order to approach the analytical framework for refusal to deal in the EU, this article investigates in total 21...