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Charles Dickens’ famous novel A Tale of Two Cities begins with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Dickens’ brilliant prose could have been describing our twin antitrust…

Attention antitrusters!  I'm pleased to pass along news of interest to all lawyers and economists active in antitrust litigation:  The American Antitrust Institute has instituted a new award program…

Introduction The smart phone wars have led to heated discussions over standard setting in technology markets. It seems only a question of time before the standard setting debate spills over into…

What would likely be the last major acquisition in the car rental industry may soon be completed, with the blessing of the Federal Trade Commission. The pending acquisition of Dollar Thrifty…

According to standard economic theory, unfettered free markets lead to an efficient allocation of resources. Importantly, this result is generally taken to hold only insofar as market failures are…

In the past six months since Google’s public disclosure of its Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust investigation, much of the debate around the issue has been focused on the evolution of search-…

Welcome to AntitrustConnect.  At this time of new direction and change in antitrust enforcement and practice, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business is excited to sponsor this blog as a forum for analysis,…

In American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, 130 S.Ct. 2201 (2010), the Supreme Court held that the NFL acting through its incorporated subsidiary NFL Properties, Inc. (NFLP) was not a…