The American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s annual Spring Meeting is underway in Washington, DC. The annual Spring Meeting features updates from federal, state and international antitrust enforcers and extensive...more
4/12/2024
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Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. (Google) moved to dismiss a third successive complaint that alleged it tied the sales of Maps, Routes and Places application programming interface (API) services to one another. A basic tying...more
2/29/2024
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Application Programming Interface (APIs) ,
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Google Maps ,
Licensing Rules ,
Monopolization ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Service Agreements ,
Terms of Service
This week, the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section kicked off its annual Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, which features updates from the antitrust enforcers and substantive discussions on today’s most pressing...more
4/8/2022
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Antitrust Litigation ,
Cartels ,
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Enforcement ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Healthcare ,
Horizontal Merger Guidelines ,
Mergers ,
No-Poaching ,
The Clayton Act ,
Vertical Mergers ,
Wage-Fixing
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit revived an antitrust suit alleging that a pharmaceutical manufacturer illegally maintained its monopoly for its innovator drug by precluding competition beyond the expiration...more
4/22/2021
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Antitrust Litigation ,
Appeals ,
Drug Pricing ,
Generic Drugs ,
Manufacturers ,
Monopolization ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Sherman Act ,
Statute of Limitations ,
The Clayton Act
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently concluded in In re Lamictal Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation that a district court’s reliance on average prices to determine class-wide impact was insufficient....more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a counterclaim plaintiff was estopped from relitigating antitrust claims in a separate action where the prior judgment allegedly involved separate and alternative...more
The US District Court for the Northern District of California certified classes of direct purchasers and end-payers in a pay-for-delay multidistrict litigation involving Lidoderm. In re Lidoderm Antitrust Litigation, Case No....more
In a 6–3 decision issued February 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States held in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission that if active market participants control an entity—even a...more
3/3/2015
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Immunity ,
Licensing Rules ,
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NC Board of Dental Examiners v FTC ,
Restraint of Trade ,
SCOTUS ,
State Action Immunity ,
State Agencies
Global antitrust regulators are on pace to levy record-breaking cartel penalties in 2014. If global regulators keep pace, cartel penalties will surpass 2013’s record total. Through June, U.S. antitrust regulators issued...more