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Winter 2013, Volume 11, Number 1

NOV-13(1)
 |  Dec 22, 2015

RPM is one of the hottest areas of competition law in the world. In our last issue we looked at a Chinese landmark case and started our global review, moving on to SE…

RPM Under EU Competition Law: Some Considerations From a Business and Economic Perspective
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Pablo Figueroa, Andres Font Galarza, Frank Maier-Rigaud, Nov 14, 2013 Resale or retail price maintenance refers to an agreement between an upstream and a downstream firm in a vertical value…

Resale Price Maintenance and Most-Favored Nation Clauses: The Future Does Not Look Bright
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Laura Atlee, Yves Botteman, Nov 14, 2013 The European Commission’s 2010 Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying Guidelines on Vertical Restraints created a certain amount of excitement with the…

RPM in the European Union: Any Developments Since Leegin?
 |  Nov 15, 2013

CFilippo Amato, Nov 14, 2013 Suspicions regarding the use of resale price maintenance in vertical agreements, i.e., agreements between a supplier and its distributors, have long existed in competition law.…

Resale Price Maintenance The Blurred Lines
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Ozlem Fidanboylu, Christian Riis-Madsen, Nov 14, 2013 The 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Leegin set in motion a landslide by overturning a 96-year old precedent. After identifying that the probability…

Resale Price Maintenance in France
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Charles Saumon, Nov 14, 2013 On October 10, 2013, the Paris Court of Appeals confirmed a landmark decision of the French Competition Authority condemning three leading manufacturers active in the…

A Look Back at the Attempts to Repeal Leegin
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Leiv Blad, Margaret Sheer, Nov 13, 2013 In 2007, the United States Supreme Court jettisoned 96 years of precedent and held that minimum resale price maintenance (“RPM”) agreements were not per…

Why the New Evidence on Minimum Resale Price Maintenance Does Not Justify a Per Se or Quick Look Approach
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Thomas Lambert, Michael Sykuta, Nov 13, 2013 The battle over the proper legal treatment of minimum resale price maintenance continues to rage in the United States. Despite the U.S. Supreme…

Resale Price Maintenance in Canada: Where Do We Stand After the Visa/Mastercard Case?
 |  Nov 15, 2013

Erika Douglas, Mark Katz, Nov 14, 2013 The Canadian Competition Act was amended in 2009 to repeal the former criminal prohibition against price maintenance and introduce a new civil “reviewable practice”…

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