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April 16, 2024
The Interplay Between Antitrust and Private Intellectual Property Litigation in...

The interplay between antitrust and IP private litigations in China, as exemplified by recent legislations and cases, underscores the evolving landscape of IP rights enforcement within antitrust frameworks. Specifically, the...


January 10, 2024
Mexico Probes Freight Rail Market Amid Infrastructure Expansion

Mexico’s antitrust authority, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), announced on Wednesday a formal investigation into the nation’s freight rail transportation sector. This move comes as the government pursues ambitious...


November 17, 2023
ECB President Christine Lagarde Says EU Needs Capital Markets Union 

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the European Union (EU) needs a “European SEC” that will replace the region’s currently fragmented supervision with a more top-down approach like that of the United...


September 28, 2023
Innovation and U.S. Antitrust Law

This paper addresses the value of innovation as an ambition of U.S. antitrust law. It argues that innovation ought to be a principal goal of the antitrust laws, but has...


September 05, 2023
US Senate’s Return May Kick AI Regulation Into High Gear

Summer is over, but the generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolution continues to march on. Many of the bleeding-edge large language models (LLMs) from firms like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic  were updated in August — yet outside...


August 29, 2023
The Case for M&A: Evidence of Efficiencies in Consummated Mergers

The U.S. antitrust agencies’ new Draft Merger Guidelines reject a long-held assumption that many, if not most, mergers are procompetitive because they allow firms to fill strategic resource gaps and...


August 09, 2023
Competition Law and Policy in Ukraine – Wartime Overview

By Oleksandr Aleksyeyenko1   Wartime Implications Russian military aggression against Ukraine started on February 24, 2022, and the end of February 2022 became a critical point for the Antimonopoly Committee...


July 21, 2023
Elbert Gary & Bill Gates: A Study in Antitrust Contrasts

Many factors influence the outcome of complex antitrust litigation. For this reason, one component of a trial cannot be elevated as more important than all the others. An underappreciated component...


June 15, 2023
Can Computational Tools Revitalize Antitrust Enforcement?

By: Giovanna Massarotto (ProMarket) Antitrust emerged during a period when technological progress was disrupting markets. The advent of railroads in the United States during the nineteenth century revolutionized business operations,...