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competition as the brand personality cannot be duplicated. In addition, this practice can be understood as a product … the others in that market space. In other words, brands have important effects on competition and the marketplace. Given … that both trademark law and antitrust law address business competition, one might expect them to address brands as they fit …
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anticompetitive effects. Most importantly, antitrust analysis should focus on competition for seeking and providing attention rather … than the particular products and services used for securing and delivering this attention. The existence of competition …
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In this paper, we analyse the potential application to the cloud computing services sector of EU competition rules …
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competition in digital markets and for antitrust and regulatory lawyers working in this field. It concludes that due to the high …
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firms through a Nash equilibrium model of research and development (R&D) competition to create new products. In the two … exclusion of its rival from post-innovation (pre-innovation) product market competition increases the overall likelihood of … exclusion of its rival from R&D competition increases the overall likelihood of industry innovation if the dominant firm regards …
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anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …
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Over the last ten years, the European Commission has been trying to increase competition in the postal sector. In order … the postal sector to competition, the level of competition achieved in this sector is quite uneven. Some segments of the … postal market are now subject to intense competition. Yet, others are still largely controlled by postal incumbents. The …
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In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules and institutions as instruments of economic regulation,...
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This document (of 310 pages) comprises the proceedings of a roundtable on competition on the merits held by the OECD …'s Competition Committee at the OECD in June 2005. The roundtable addressed the lack of clear principles and tests for assessing the … behaviour of dominant firms. The shortcomings of the term "competition on the merits" as an indicator of lawful unilateral …
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