Antitrust

The Canadian Track Record in Punishing Cartel Conduct Canada has a long history of pursuing and prosecuting cartels (more commonly referred to in Canadian competition law as "conspiracies"). The…

A NEW COMMISSIONER OF COMPETITION FOR CANADA The year just ended witnessed a changing of the guard at Canada's Competition Bureau, with Melanie Aitken resigning as Commissioner of Competition in…

Canada's first competition legislation was enacted in 1889, with the intention of combatting the price-fixing and other anti-competitive conduct of so-called "combinations". Trade and professional…

Over the last decade, the patent landscape has been dramatically altered by the rise of entities whose business model is to acquire significant patent portfolios and aggressively pursue license fees…

At the end of last week, the European Competition Network ("ECN") published a report on the competition law enforcement and market monitoring activities by the European competition authorities in the…

At the end of March, the European Commission fined Czech energy companies Energetický a průmyslový and EP Investment Advisors EUR2.5 million for obstructing a dawn raid which European Commission…