Jonathan Baker reflects on his summer experience with the Competition Directorate of the European Commission (DG-Comp) in Brussels and sees lessons for the U.S. and the EC.
It's the bottom of the ninth as Kevin McDonald turns to baseball to consider the Supreme Court's pending decision on whether a presumption of market power from a patent on the tying product exists in a Section 1 Sherman Act tying claim.
James Mutchnik and Christopher Casamassima dissect the role played by the inability-to-pay provision of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on the guilty pleas in the Hynix Semiconductor criminal price-fixing case.
Joseph Tomain reviews Jim Rossi's book on the relationship between regulator and regulatee and the nature of political bargaining as it affects network industries.
Joshua Lichtman and Carlos Rainer look at defendants' use of the filed rate doctrine to preclude state and federal antitrust litigation relating to wholesale electricity and natural gas rates.
Our editors note two papers -- one discusses the appropriate use of bidding analysis in antitrust; and the other finds yet another flaw in Chicago's single-monopoly profit theory.
NB: From the Editor
WELCOME to the September issue of The Antitrust Source – your source for up-to-the-minute substantive analysis on the most timely topics in antitrust by leading practitioners, economists, academics, and government officials. The articles in this issue span the seasons -- from the lessons learned by Jonathan Baker during his summer spent at DGComp to Kevin McDonald's particularly fitting baseball-driven perspective on the question presented in Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink, currently pending before the Supreme Court.
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