To begin 2013, we’ve focused ahead as our authors have gazed into their crystal balls. In this, the second of a two-part issue, we discuss two key areas that should be very active in the coming year—mergers and patents—as well as two exciting developing competition arenas—Brazil and India. But first we tackle an especially thorny […]

Alfonso Lamadrid, Jan 29, 2013 Economic policies have traditionally been characterized or labeled pursuant to the simplistic, and hence popular, summa divisio between right and left. Discussions about the economy in many nations worldwide continue to be greatly influenced by dogmatic principles disconnected from objective analyses. Left wing political actors generally tend to favor all-left […]

Paulo Furquim de Azevedo, Jan 29, 2013 2013 will be a particularly challenging year for the new Cade. More complex mergers are likely to be filed, conduct cases will demand more attention, companies may ask for judicial review regarding the open questions raised by the new law, and the new Cade will remain, for a […]

Jan 29, 2013 One of the most pressing issues confronting antitrust in 2013 (and beyond) involves patent assertion entities (“PAEs”), previously known as patent trolls. Supporters proclaim PAEs’ benefits to “invention markets.” Critics lament extortion-like demands. Into this debate tiptoes antitrust, wondering if it can play any meaningful role. In this article, I offer six […]

Peter Guryan, Richard Jamgochian, Jan 29, 2013 In 2012, the U.S. antitrust agencies fulfilled their mission of reestablishing themselves as aggressive antitrust enforcers. Second Request investigations have increased by more than 50 percent, and the percentage of merger challenges has more than doubled during the Obama administration. Recent developments in the last quarter of 2012 […]

Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Cyril Shroff, Jan 29, 2013 Competition law in India is governed by the Competition Act, 2002 (“Act”) and accompanying regulations. The Act itself came into force in phases: the provisions relating to anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominance becoming operational as of May 20, 2009 and the provisions relating to merger control being […]