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The Competition Commission of India and Digital Markets
Antitrust Chronicle® – The Airline Industry
Boosting Competition in International Aviation
Reshaping Competition Policy for the U.S. Airline Industry
Algorithmic Collusion in the Skies: The Role of AI in Shaping Airline Competition
Competition in U.S. Airline Markets: Major Developments and Economic Insights
EU Merger Control in Aviation: The Lufthansa/Ita Case and the EU’s Balancing Act in Antitrust Enforcement
An Evaluation of Developments in the Airline Industry Since 2000
Capital One/Discover Deal: Rumored Concerns Lack Substance
Preparing for a Pharmacy Benefit Manager Insurance Business Model
Live Updates – ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting 2025, Washington, D.C.
Antitrust Chronicle® – China Edition: Year of the Snake
The Fair Competition Review and the Unified National Market in China
Facing the Conundrums: China’s Antitrust Policy Amid Geopolitical Shifts
Concentrations in China in 2023 and 2024
SAMR’s Evolving Role on the Geopolitical Chessboard
Increased Transparency or Burden? – Observation on the Horizontal Merger Review Guidelines
Navigating China’s 2024 Landmark Antitrust Judgments: Key Cases and Implications
China’s Highest Court Clears Roadblocks for Antitrust Litigation
The Choice of Judicial Settlement Pathways for Frand Licensing Disputes Under Chinese Law: Perspectives From Actions for the Declaration of Frand Obligation
Navigating the Legal Complexities of Canadian-Origin Marketing Claims
California Frontier AI Working Group Issues Report on Foundation Model Regulation
OpenAI’s Viral Studio Ghibli Moment Highlights AI Copyright Concerns
From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: How India Can Outflank the US in AI
Robots Are Coming—But They Still Can’t Register Copyright
The Growing Relevance of 24-Hour Trading Signals a Blockchain-centric Future for Trad-Fi
How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost Productivity in Latin America
Cryptotribunals: The Unavoidable Change of Arbitration?
Towards Planet-Proof Computing: Ten Key Elements EU Data Centre Sustainability Policy Should Take Onboard
Efficient Government and Safe Innovation: A Collaborative Approach to Artificial Intelligence Policy
How Could Subsidies Incentivise Clean Heat Neighbourhoods?
Is There an Economic Justification for the Attacks on Rent Algorithms?
Antitrust Chronicle® – Mobile Ecosystems
Mobile Ecosystems: An Intellectual Entelechy but A Necessary Model
Creating Contestability and Fairness in Mobile Ecosystems: The Contribution of the DMA
Digital Ecosystems and the Not (Yet) As Efficient Competitor Principle
Assessing the Competition Law Scrutiny of Smart Wearables and Mobile AR/VR Devices
The Mobile Software Competition Act and Its Impact on the Japan Fair Trade Commission
A Comparative Analysis of Japan’s Smartphone Focused Ex Ante Regulation and the DMA
SEC’s Focus on Cyber and AI to Continue Under Trump Administration
TechREG® Chronicle – Standard Essential Patents: Trends & Strategies
Standards: America’s Path to Global Leadership (Again)
Standards Organizations: The Missing Link in Fixing FRAND Evasion
FRAND Interim Licenses in Standard Essential Patents Disputes
The Rising Importance of Video Codec SEPs in a Data-Driven World
Avanci’s Admissions Cast Doubt on Pool’s Procompetitive Effects
Our New Consumer Enforcement Regime
Prohibited Practices Under the AI Act: Answered and Unanswered Questions in the Commission’s Guidelines
Antitrust at the Agencies: Private Anticompetitive Censorship Edition
Tariffs and Trade Actions: Summing Up the Last Few Days
The Saw on the Legal Services Act
Fix the Price or Price the Fix? Resolving the Sequencing Puzzle in Corporate Contracting
Detecting RPM with Unsupervised Machine Learning
ACCC Pieces Together Case Against Broken Mosaic
DOJ Fugitive Page (And the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine)
The 2025 UK Government’s Strategic Steer to the CMA: The Beginning of a New Era for the UK Antitrust Watchdog
Slippery Business: COMESA Court Invalidates Mauritius’ Edible Oil Tariff
Case C-233/23, Android Auto (I): How the Case Was Transformed Before the Court of Justice
DOJ and FTC Issue Antitrust Guidelines for Business Activities Affecting Workers
Antitrust Chronicle® – Self-Preferencing
Platform Self-Preferencing: Focusing the Policy Debate
Weaponized Opacity: Self-Preferencing in Digital Audience Measurement
Self-Preferencing: An Economic Literature-Based Assessment Advocating a Case-By-Case Approach and Compliance Requirements
Self-Preferencing in Adjacent Markets
What Should Europe’s “Do Something!” Moment Mean for Competition?
Interim Measures in Abuse of Dominance Investigations: Recent Developments in Latin America
TechREG® Chronicle – Healthcare Artificial Intelligence
Embrace The Chaos: AI Regulation in the US Remains in Flux
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Regulatory Perspective and Corporate Governance Implications
Charting the Next Frontier of Healthcare: Balancing AI’s Opportunities with Regulatory and Competition Considerations
Rethinking Evaluation of Large Language Models in Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence Adoption in the Healthcare Industry: After a Slow Start, Hospitals Are Finally Starting to Use AI
A Tale of Two Stakeholder Groups in Regulating Healthcare AI
Antitrust Chronicle® – Supply Chains
Antitrust and the Supply Chain: Protecting the Power of the Markets
Understanding Category Captain Power: Insights for Competition Policy and Antitrust Law
Supply Chain Risks and Vertical Merger Enforcement
Aligning Trade and Competition in Global Tech-Based Value Chains
The Changing Landscape of Supply Chains and Implications for Antitrust
Unsustainable Differences in Antitrust Treatment of Sustainability Agreements: 2025 Likely to Bring Significant Changes to How the U.S. and the EU Analyze Sustainability Issues
FCC Responds to Cybersecurity Threats with CALEA Ruling
Do Stablecoin Patent Applications Signal a Cryptocurrency Evolution?
The Most Important Piece of Tech Regulation You’ve Never Heard Of
Meta’s Moderation Shift and the TikTok Ban: What’s Cooking in the US and What This Means for EU Platform Regulation
Crypto Regulatory Affairs: In the US, Focus on Crypto Banking Access Grows
Turkish Competition Authority Updates Regulation on Fines
DeepSeek is not a Good Reason for Big Tech to Become More Powerful
The Competitiveness Compass: Recalibrating the True North for Merger Control?
There Can Be No Winners in a US-China AI Arms Race
AI and the Future of National Security
TechREG® Chronicle – Crypto Insights & Trends
The AI Agent Revolution in Crypto: Looming Risks and Regulatory Opportunities
Cryptocurrency and Digital Currency: Preserving the Difference
Simple and Effective Portfolio Construction with Crypto Assets
Australia Remains in Regulatory Purgatory After a Decade of Crypto Policy Discussion
FTC Brings First Robinson-Patman Act Case in More Than Two Decades
What If There Was No Per Se Rule in Criminal Cases?
HSR Filing Thresholds, Filing Fees, and Penalties on the Rise Again
Takeaways From DOJ, FTC End to Collaboration Guidelines
FTC Issues Its Annual Revisions to HSR and Interlocking Directorate
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Healthcare Antitrust in a New Administration: What Stays the Same and What Changes?
Rare FTC-DOJ Joint ‘Gun Jumping’ Action Results in Record Penalty
Betting on Fair Play: Competition Tribunal Orders Interim Relief to Lottoland in Google Ads Dispute
Learning Digital Procurement’s Hard Lessons Before Jumping In at the AI Deep End
Business Groups Sue to Block New HSR Form
Kneschke vs. LAION: Opening Fresh Perspectives on AI Training and TDM Exceptions
The Latest Legislative Development and Enforcement Trends of the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law
Antitrust Chronicle® – International Criminal Enforcement
The Antitrust Division’s Recent Work to Combat International Cartels
Information Sharing: The New Frontier of U.S. Antitrust Enforcement
The Key Role of Guidelines on Exchanges of Information Among Competitors and the Divergent Transatlantic Paths
Leniency, Whistleblowers, and Compliance
Enforcers’ Ongoing Efforts to Combat Convergent Competition and Corruption Risks
Antitrust Chronicle® – Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Untangling the PBM Mess
Using Data, Not Anecdotes, to Analyze Criticisms of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Vertical Integration and PBMs: What, Me Worry?
The Economics of Benefit Management in Prescription-Drug Markets
PBMs: The Hidden Actor Behind Product Hopping
A Discovery Plan for Pharmacy Benefit Managers’ Collusion
On the Article 102 TFEU Guidelines (V): Competition on The Merits as an Irritant
Digital Assets: What to Expect from the Incoming Administration and Congress
Draft Revision of China’s Anti-Unfair Competition Law Released
A Policy Primer for Free Expression and Content Moderation, Part I: Centering Public Interest Values
Labor Antitrust: A Solution in Search of Evidence
TechREG® Chronicle – Brussels Tech Effect
The Brussels Effect, The Draghi Report and 2025 – Is Cure Now Better Than Prevention?
What Can Tech Companies Expect from the New European Commission?
If the “Brussels Effect” Fades in Tech Markets, the EU Will Only Have Itself to Blame
Brussels Effect in AI Regulation? A Glance at Brazil
January 2025 Regulatory Updates for Broadcasters – Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, Children’s Television Programming Reporting, Expansion of Audio Description Requirements, Political Windows, and More
Semper Aliquid Novi Africam Adferre – Balancing Socio-Economic Goals with Competition Law
Antitrust Chronicle® – CRESSE Insights
Effective Interoperability in Mobile Ecosystems: EU Competition Law Versus Regulation
The Use of Empirical Evidence in Antitrust: Trends, Challenges, and a Path Forward
Some Empirical Evidence on the Role of Presumptions and Evidentiary Standards on Antitrust (Under)Enforcement: Is the EC’s New Communication on Art.102 in the Right Direction?
The EC’s Draft Guidelines on the Application of Article 102 TFEU: An Economic Perspective
Reforms and Trends in the Regulation of Digital Markets in Japan
Declining Trend in Leniency? Causes and Responses
Recent Developments in Cartel Enforcement
Remedies After Illumina/GRAIL– The Thorny Question of Proportionality
Why Was Illumina/GRAIL Blocked in the EU? Reviewing The European Commission’s Assessment of Vertical Mergers in Light of the 2022 Prohibition Decision
The Role of Uncertainty in the Future European Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Lessons Learned From Illumina/GRAIL
Illumina’s Light on Article 22 EUMR: The Suspended Step and Uncertain Future of EU Merger Control Over Below-Threshold “Killer” Mergers
EU-Level Jurisdiction Over “Killer Acquisitions” in the Aftermath of Illumina/GRAIL
Illumina/GRAIL: Inside The Perfect Storm
Towercast, CK Telecoms and Illumina: Interesting Times for EU Merger Control (Yet Again)
New Powers, New HSR Rules: The Illumina Ripple Effect
Antitrust Chronicle® – Illumina/GRAIL
Industrial Liberty
Merger Reform Bill Passes
Ribera’s New Competition Mandate – A rebirth of (green) European Champions?
FTC Doubles Down Against Long Odds on Noncompete Rule
Planning for the New HSR Form
European Commission’s Draft Guidelines on Article 102 – Webinar Series
Resale Price Maintenance in EU Competition Law: Understanding the Significance of Super Bock
Compliments to the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (and A Trip Down Memory Lane)
Key Takeaways from the DOJ Antitrust Division’s Updated Compliance Guidance: It’s Not Just Criminal Anymore
Real-Life Monopoly in Zimbabwe
Understanding The Digital Regulation Landscape
Coopetition in The Pharma Industry: Challenges for Antitrust
Symmetry and the Sixth Force: The Essential Role of Complements
ESG Collaborations in Light of European Antitrust Policy and Enforcement Trends
Regulatory Choices for Digital Markets: Rules, Standards and More…
Antitrust Chronicle® – Co-opetition
Antitrust Advent Calendar 2024
Supreme Court’s Rejection of DOJ Appeal Could Shift the Landscape for Bid-Rigging Prosecutions
How Accounting Helps Hide Mergers from the FTC and DOJ
Seizure and Examination of Mobile Data and Data Carriers in Austria: Where Do We Stand and What’s Next?
Women and Generative AI: The Adoption Gap Is Closing Fast, But a Trust Gap Persists
What Is ‘Illegal Content’ and What Are the Key Duties Under the Online Safety Act?
Tech Policy in a Second Trump Administration: AI Promotion and Further Decoupling from China
The EU Court of Justice’s judgment in Intel II and Its Implications for the Draft Guidelines
AI and the Digital Economy Framework Agreement: Preparing ASEAN for the Next Tech Wave
The Future of Credit: AI or Human Judgment?
The AI Legislative Puzzle
Why a Ruling Against The Internet Archive Threatens the Future of America’s Libraries
FTC’s Watchdog Role in Pharma Mergers: Road Bumps and The Way Forward
Eerie Exchanges? US Antitrust Agencies Renew Focus on Information Exchange Practices
New Commissioner, New Mission, New Policy for Competition?
Banking Reform: An Increase In Scrutiny
European Commission Clears First Acquisition Under EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation
New Premerger Notification Regime to Fundamentally Change M&A Strategy
Trouble In Store: New Challenges for Shein and Temu Devotees in South Africa
Gibson Decision Hands Atlantic City Casino-Hotels Dismissal of Price-Fixing Claims
Managing Cybersecurity Risks Arising from AI – New Guidance from the NYDFS
Handling Non-Compliant Deposits in the Era of the Travel Rule: A Path Forward
Unpacking The Implications of The FTC’s Antitrust Case Against Amazon for Online Marketplace Competition
The CJEU Rules in the Diarra Case – FIFA’s transfer Rules Restrict Free Movement and Competition
In Search of a Competition Policy for the Digital Sector
Tech M&A Outlook: Investment and regulatory trends
How Tech Giants Make History
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Competition: The Main Takeaways of the Recent Opinion Issued by the French Competition Authority
Beyond Code: Addressing AI bias with Inclusive Governance
Broadcasters Should Evaluate Attack Ads for Liability Concerns in the Final Weeks Before the November Election
Why a Ruling Against the Internet Archive Threatens the Future of America’s Libraries
US Federal Trade Commission Issues Final Rules on HSR Pre-Merger Reporting
Facing AI, Employing a Safe Approach
Global Governance: Goals and Lessons for AI
Can AI drive Innovation in Qualitative Research? Here’s What We’ve Learnt.
When the State Restricts Competition: What Role for Antitrust Enforcement?
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Legal Frameworks in the Asia-Pacific Region
Google’s Antitrust Troubles Demonstrate the Need for a Digital Regulator
Criminal Negligence and Acceptable Risk in the EU’s AI Act: Casting Light, Leaving Shadows
FTC Faces Renewed Criticism Both from Within and from Congress
The Next Administration Must Finish the Merger Guidelines Revision
Evaluating EU Antitrust Procedures: EC Key Findings and Future Directions
Mind the Gap: ECJ Judgment Determines European Commission Cannot Review Deals Below Member State Merger Control Thresholds
ACM: European Court of Justice takes away opportunity to assess acquisition by Microsoft, new power is needed
The Justice Department Challenges Visa’s Predatory Power
Debate: ‘Doubt is their product’—The difference between research and academic lobbying
Antitrust at the Agencies: The Meat of the Matter Edition
Antitrust Sanctions: The Duty to Preserve Chats
Antitrust Under Biden: Taking a Closer Look at the Numbers
School Uniforms: Is Your Policy At Risk of Breaking the Law?
The US Stablecoin Landscape: Leveraging Ecosystem Monitoring to Build Trust
FCC Proposes New TCPA Rules for AI Calls and Texts
Crypto Lobbying Makes Insane Splash in American Politics
The Case for Vigilance in AI Markets
Ten Reasons Why Apple’s App Store Terms are Still Not Compliant with the DMA
From Innovation to Implementation: Regulating AI in Aotearoa New Zealand
Cultivated Foie Gras Flies into Europe – Prepare for Legal Disruption
CrowdStrike and Digital Ecosystem Transitivity
From Concept to Precedent: The 2024 Draft Guidelines on Article 102
Recent Regulatory Developments in Training Artificial Intelligence Models Under the GDPR
Empowering Futures: Digital Transformation in the Eastern Caribbean
Federal Court Strikes Down FTC’s Noncompete Rule: What It Means for Businesses
Podcasters and Broadcasters – Disclose Those Sponsors!
To Google or Not to Google?
Antitrust Enforcement Led to the Creation of the Telephone
SSNIPPETS (49): Last Minute
SAMR Merger Control Statistics in the First Half of 2024
How Orange Book Antitrust Scrutiny Is Intensifying
4th CCC Diplomatic Conference on Competition Law Places Focus on Inflation, Food Security, and Poverty Eradication
Public Knowledge Hails U.S. v. Google Decision Finding Monopoly Hold on Search Markets
The First Public Meeting of the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing: What Happened and What’s Next
Misconceptions About Tacit Collusion
Crypto Needs Comprehensive Policies to Protect Economies and Investors
Has the US Supreme Court Made It Harder to Regulate Social Media — or the Opposite?
NATO Can’t Truly Defend Cyberspace Without Private Partnerships
Did Concentration Exacerbate the CrowdStrike Outage?
Protecting the Public From Abusive AI-Generated Content 
Bots and False Advertising
The Evolving Safety and Policy Challenges of Self-Driving Cars
Mergers & Acquisitions, AI and Antitrust: The New Creative Ways for Big Tech to Enter the AI Market and Avoid HSR Rules
Germany: Landmark Court Decision Deals with AI Training and Copyright
All Change to the UK’s Competition Law Regime
The CJEU Sets Limits to the Application of the Concept of Economic Unity
Deleting an Instagram Post Was Evidence-Tampering–Webb v. U.S.
The NCAA Antitrust Lawsuits Will Not Pay Off for College Athletes Without a Permanent Players Association
Hold The Phone: Antitrust Authorities Looking Closely at Instant Messages in Dawn Raids
Not Dead Yet: Noncompetes Survive, the FTC Rule Doesn’t (For Now)
Ensuring Fair Competition: Antitrust Considerations in the US Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023
The Commission Amends Regional Aid Rules to Foster Support for Strategic Technology Projects
Key Takeaways from the Servier Saga: Object, (Pro and Anticompetitive) Effects and Counterfactual (I)
The WGA’s Misguided Fears: Unpacking the Myths of Media Consolidation in the Streaming Era
Life Sciences and Health Care Companies Under the Competition Microscope: New Cross-Government Initiatives Seek to Expose Antitrust and Other Violations
Maturing UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Collective Proceedings Process Sees Uptick in Cases
Malawi Revamps its Antitrust Laws: Suspensory Merger Control and More
The US Needs a Techno-Industrial Strategy
Lessons to Learn from Airline Mergers
DOJ Filed Cert Petition in United States v. Brewbaker
Artificial Bugs for Enhanced Cybersecurity
FTC’s Non-Compete Rule Blocked and Unlikely To Be Revived – But Risk Remains
Digital Sovereignty in Africa: Moving Beyond Local Data Ownership
Epic Games Calls Out Apple for Rejecting Its Games Store in The EU
DISH Calls Foul on T-Mobile’s Plans for 800 MHz Spectrum
Australia’s Digital ID Act 2024 Signed Into Law
How Uber Provided Short-Term Solutions and Long-Term Problems
CJEU Upholds Country-of-Origin Principle for Online Service Providers in the EU
Microsoft’s Work to Strengthen Cybersecurity Protection
Supreme Court Rejects the Chevron Doctrine – What Does it Mean for Broadcasters Regulated By the FCC?
Connecting The Dots: AI Is Eating The Web That Enabled It
Meta’s Oversight Board is Unprepared for A Historic 2024 Election Cycle
The UK’s New Digital Markets Regime: Some Key Takeaways
A Voice of Reason: European Publishers Council Submits Concrete Proposals to the EC for Strict Enforcement of DMA’s App Store Rules
The Admissibility Benchmark for the Judicial Review of Dawn Raids in Europe. Has Recent Case Law Shifted the Boundaries?
Merger Review Should Incorporate a Role for Unions
Will the FTC Reinvigorate an Antiquated Law that Raises Prices?
The Role of Business Users Under the DMA
California Attorney General Advocates for Greater Antitrust Enforcement in Private Equity in Healthcare
No Offseason for the NCAA
“So Much Abuse”: Overhaul of Competition Law Shifts from ‘Buyer Power’ to ‘Superior Bargaining Position’ Abuse
Competition Law in Sports: It’s Time to Talk About Merger Control
ACM Study: One in Ten Consumers Switches Energy Contracts Following Telemarketing calls or door-to-door sales
Breaking Barriers: EU Issues Record Fine as it Takes On Cross-Border Trade Restrictions (Again)
Is it Possible to Win a Robinson Patman Act Case Now?
FCC’s Space Bureau Seeks Further Input on Regulation of Orbital Debris
Artificial Intelligence: A Challenge for the Mexican Tax Administration Service to Audit
Women in Tech – A Video Series
President Biden Vetoes Crypto Custody Bill
Arizona Turns Up the Heat in Amazon’s Legal Battles
Klarna Reports That 87% of Employees Use GenAI For Their Daily Work
Why America Needs an Apollo Program for The Age of AI
What to make of the new AI Roadmap from the Senate’s Bipartisan Commission
Putting the Public First: The Road to Accountable AI
Use Cases of Machine Learning in Finance
Slow the Roll-up: Help Shine a Light on Serial Acquisitions
What ISPs Need to Know About the FCC’s Title II / Open Internet Order
Federal Suit by Ohio Physicians Challenging Noncompete Agreements Dismissed for Lack of Antitrust Standing
Life After the FTC Non-Compete Ban: What Companies Should Know
A Modest Proposal—Antitrust Division Special Counsel for Whistleblower
Much More Than a Market?
Why Common Ownership Can Increase Competition
Litigating Director Disqualification
AG Opinion in FIFA v BZ – Further Competition Trouble for Football Rules
“But Did You Really Comply…?” Insights into Post-Merger Conditions
How Should We Measure Competition?
Online Retailers Beware – Amazon US Website Found to Target UK Consumers and Infringe UK Trade Marks
CG Antitrust Review Episode 25: In Conversation With Bill Kovacic
The FTC Noncompete Ban Is Legal
Ofcom to Push For Better Age Verification, Filters and 40 Other Checks in New Online Child Safety Code
The Critical Role of the Affordable Connectivity Program in Closing the Digital Divide
Vodafone/Three: A Standalone Decision or A Potential Reversal of Spectrum Policy?
Improving Transparency of AI use in Procurement
As States Lead Efforts to Address Deepfakes in Political Ads, Federal Lawmakers Seek Nationwide Policies
Microsoft Joins Thorn and All Tech Is Human to Enact Strong Child Safety Commitments for Generative AI
Walking the Tightrope: As Generative AI Meets EU Regulation, Pragmatism is Likely
Three Ways the US Could Help Universities Compete with Tech Companies on AI Innovation
11 States Now Have Laws Limiting Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes, and Synthetic Media in Political Advertising – Looking at the Issues
Protecting Civil Rights in the Face of AI
U.S. Competition Agencies File Statement of Interest in Algorithmic Pricing Case
Will You Take This Algorithm to Court?
Why the FTC Needs to Intervene in Law School Rankings
DMA AI IKK
U.S. Competition Agencies File Statement of Interest in Algorithmic Pricing Case
Antitrust Compliance Incentive Mechanism in China
‘Articles 101 and 102 TFEU must be interpreted consistently’: Superleague and the EU system of undistorted competition
If I Were You…I’d Listen to this Podcast about Residential Real Estate & Antitrust
DOJ’s Case Against Apple: Beware of Forcing ‘Efficiencies’
Blocked JetBlue-Spirit Deal Illustrates New Antitrust Approach
Administration Launches Antitrust-Focused Strike Force
Is the Brussels Effect Creating a New Legal Order in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean?
Hospital Consolidation Matters
A New Dawn for African Antitrust in Uganda
ACM: Fair Competition is No Guarantee for Affordable Energy for Everyone
Driving Innovation with Antitrust
Enforceable Terms and Arbitration Provisions Important for Providers in Current Crypto Cyberthreat Environment
Patent Trolls Are Harming Innovation. Congress Can Help
AI in Brazil: Exploring opportunities
The Tech Industry Can’t Agree on What Open-Source AI Means. That’s a Problem
How an April Fools’ Day On-Air Prank Gone Wrong Could Result in FCC Issues
Can Journalism Survive AI?
AI Legal Updates
Broadband Providers Are Not Copyright Cops: Why the Sony v. Cox Case Threatens Internet Users
The ACM’s Mission To Plug the “Small Acquisitions Gap”
The EU’s New Market Definition Notice
Relaxing whilst doing Competition Law is not an Oxymoron EU Competition Law and Sports: my presentation at the Institut d’études européennes (ULB)
Mi Mercado Es Su Mercado: The Flawed Competition Analysis of Mexico’s COFECE
Antitrust for Kids—Anatomy of a Chocolate Cartel (an Antitrust Review of the movie Wonka)
Merger Guidelines Provide Insight on DOJ and FTC Enforcement Priorities for 2024
DOJ Takes a Cue from ‘Catch Me If You Can’ with Price-Fixing Plea Agreement
The European Commission Fines Apple 1.84 Billion Euros and Spotify Still Isn’t Happy
Rethinking My Economics
Taking Stock of Merger Enforcement Under the Biden Administration
Problems in the Ports! Competition Commission of Mauritius Launches a Market Study in the Ports Industry
AI and Product Safety Standards Under the EU AI Act
Apple’s Exclusionary App Store Scheme: An Existential Moment For The Digital Markets Act
Study Suggests Chatbots Could Lessen Legal Chores
Generative AI Risks Further Atomizing Democratic Societies
Who’s Been Regulating My AI?: Goldilocks and The House Of Lords Report on LLMs and Generative AI
Introduction to China’s Trade Sanctions System
Indirect Beneficiaries of State aid
Antitrust for Kids: The Best Unfair Valentine Competition Ever
Blog Paul de Bijl: Corporate responsibility goes further than merely not violating the law
Whose Failure Is the Failed Amazon/iRobot Merger?
Disappearing No More: Maintaining Electronic Messages for Antitrust Investigations
The Subsidy Advice Unit – Our First Year and Next Steps
Whose Interest Is It Anyway? CAK Stresses ‘Public Interest’ in Merger Control
Don’t You (Forget About Me)
The Fix Is In – Key Learnings From Recent Vertical Merger Challenges
The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the US
The Impacts of Increasing U.S. Hospital Consolidation on Medicaid Recipients
What Do We Do With Presumptions in Antitrust?
SEC Approves Exchange Listing Applications for Spot Bitcoin ETPs
Enhancing Trust and Protecting Privacy in the AI Era
Prohibited: Meta’s Unlawful Behavioural Advertising Practices
Walking the Tightrope: As Generative AI Meets EU Regulation, Pragmatism Is Likely
Four Lessons From 2023 That Tell Us Where AI Regulation is Going
The GDPR As a Cyber Risk Management System: The ECJ Cautiously Tackles Data Breaches in the NAP Case
UK Government Consults on Amending Mandatory Filing Obligations for AI Acquisitions
Fourth Circuit Holds Per-Se Rule Does Not Apply in Bid-Rigging Case
Mexico President Announces Plan to Shut Down Autonomous Regulators
Resh(AI)ping Good Administration: Addressing the Mass Effects of Public Sector Digitalisation
Federal Judge Fights the Use of Artificial Intelligence in His Courtroom
The Biden Administration’s Recent Antitrust Wins Help Us All
What The Research Says About the Impacts of Hospital Consolidation Across the United States
Competition on The Merits
All I Want for Christmas….
The Wait is Over: DOJ and FTC Issue Final Merger Guidelines
New FTC, DOJ Merger Guidelines Create Challenges and Opportunities
Towards a More Interactive Merger Review Process: UK CMA Proposes Amendments
Supreme Court Will Not Review Judgment-Sharing Agreement Among Defendants in Broiler Chicken Case
Mobile Gaming: M&A Trends and Predictions
Lessons from DOJ’s Wave Of Labor Market Prosecutions
Antitrust Regulation of Big Tech Needs a Better Understanding of Behavioral Economics
Why States and Localities are Acting On AI
China’s Personal Data Law – Legal and Practical Assessment of Compliance Risk
The Morocco Competition Council takes action to ensure fairness in Morocco’s fuel market with a settlement of 1,840,410,426 Moroccan Dirhams
EU AI Act Update – Latest developments and potential roadblocks ahead
In the Shadow of the European Court of Justice: The Luxembourg Conference on Transatlantic Data Transfers
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook
The Microsoft / Activision Saga – A Real Game Changer?
Meta to Require Labeling of Digitally Altered Political Ads (Including Those Generated By AI) – Looking at the Rules that Apply to Various Media Platforms Limiting Such Policies on Broadcast and Cable
Why Mental Health Apps Need to Take Privacy More Seriously
How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Capital of Cybercrime
The Legal Definition of Self-Preferencing: Too Narrow, Too Broad, or Both?
How Monopolies are Making TV Worse
Small Mergers, Big Problems
UK’s Top AI Founders Recommend 4 Impactful Actions for Government
Taking Legal Action to Protect Users of AI and Small Businesses
FTC Takes Nontarget to Court in Robinson-Patman Act Investigation
GAO Recommends Increased Guidance for DOD Mergers & Acquisitions Review
Market Power as a Limiting Principle in Merger Enforcement
If I Had a Broadaxe…
Setting The Record Straight on Crypto Crowdfunding by Hamas
Spain Creates AI Regulator to Enforce the AI Act
FTC Rolls Up on Private Equity Serial Acquisitions
State Attorneys General Take a Strong Pro-Enforcement Stance in Comments to Draft Merger Guidelines
Valve v Commission: a (seemingly) straightforward case with some open questions of major significance
U.S. Deputy AG Announces New Safe Harbor Policy for Voluntary Disclosures in M&A
Is Amazon’s Scale a Harm?
MMA & Monopsony: MMA Fighters Win Class Certification Bout in Employment Monopolization Case
Competition Commission Publishes ‘Public Interest Guidelines Relating To Merger Control’
China To Loosen Cross-Border Data Transfer Rules
The Elegant Economy Does Not Economize
The FCC’s Clock Is Ticking on Defining Digital Discrimination
Platform Divergence and Geographic Divergence After Microsoft/Activision and Apple v. CMA
Chinese Regulators Give AI Firms a Helping Hand
The IP in AI: Can Patents Protect AI-Generated Inventions?
Tech Group Calls India’s Proposed Guidelines Against Dark Patterns ‘Regulatory Overlap’
Crypto Regulatory Affairs: IMF proposes crypto-risk assessment matrix
Humanity Must Establish Its Rules of Engagement with AI — and Soon
Darrow Raises $35 Million in Series B Funding to Expand AI Platform for Intelligent Legal Violation Detection
Federal Reserve Targets Supervision of “Novel” Activities
Big Brother & Biased Bots: Practical Considerations for Using AI in Employment Decision-Making
Conference Debriefing (38): Professors Go Karellamt
Merged Firms Offer Less Product Variety
Competition Litigation Funding Doesn’t Grow on Trees – Unintended Consequences of The UKSC’s PACCAR Decision
Ownership Claims over Auction of “The First NFT” Previously Dismissed by a New York Court Now on Appeal
The FTC’s Landmark Case Against Amazon Tackles the Central Issue of e-Commerce Market Power
An Inside Look at Congress’s First AI Regulation Forum
Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
Extreme Makeover: US Merger Notification Edition
The Case of Microsoft: Why Software Monocultures Also Play a Role Beyond Antitrust Considerations
DOJ’s Increased Focus on Criminal Trade Secrets Cases
U.S. Labor Market Concentration, Competition, and Worker Bargaining Power as Employment Trends Shift From Manufacturing to Services
Paul Weiss Discusses Proposed Merger Guidelines and Private Equity
Form and Substance in EU Competition Law
Microsoft and Activision: Where Things Stand
McDonald’s & Monopsony: The Seventh Circuit Vacates District Court’s Dismissal of a Per Se No-Poach Theory
The FTC Lacks Authority for Competition Rulemaking
Michigan Law School Bans ChatGPT Generated Applications
Self-Driving Cars and AI Ethics
European Commission Adopts First DMA Designation Decisions
Formula 1’s NFTs: A New Era In Ticketing And Digital Technology
India’s AI Opportunity
Large Language Models Aren’t People. Let’s Stop Testing Them As If They Were
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What Does The New EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) Mean For Companies Doing Business In The EU?
CAK Imposes Highest-Ever Cartel Fine On 9 Steel Producers
ABA Forms Task Force to Study Impact of Artificial Intelligence on The Legal Profession
Family Ties And The Boundaries Of The Firm In Antitrust Enforcement
Patenting for Blockchain and Crypto Tech
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Generative Artificial Intelligence: How GAI Automates Disinformation and What We Should Do About It
Case‑376/20 P, CK Telecoms: Tetra Laval Survives, But The Legal Test For Non-Coordinated Effects Will Have To Wait
Update: Judge Issues Decision and Final Judgment in DOJ Antitrust Case Against JetBlue
AI Under the Antitrust Microscope: Competition Enforcers Focusing on Generative AI from All Angles
Federal and State Antitrust Enforcers Double Down on Stance Against No-Poach Agreements, Urging 2nd Circuit in Amicus Briefs to Revive High-Fashion Case
Sweeping Inquiry Sheds Light on Online Intermediation Platforms: Competition, Opportunity, and the Road Ahead
CAT’s Liothyronine Judgment Is Notable Beyond Excessive Pricing Cases
Congress Eyes Establishing a Digital Regulator
Does ‘Open Finance’ Promote Competition or Facilitate Free Riding?
More “Suddenly Classic” Antitrust Cases from the New Merger Guidelines: Philadelphia National Bank and Pabst
Developers continue to dive into the crypto space as market remains lackluster
Computer Says No – Will Fairness Survive In The Age Of AI?
Corporate Responsibility in the Age of AI
Amazon/iRobot: Does Amazon Have An Incentive To Preference Its Own Products?
Working Assumption: Factors Slowing AI’s Impact on Jobs
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Announces Proposed Voluntary Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices
Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI launch Frontier Model Forum
The EU AI Act at a crossroads: generative AI as a challenge for regulation
AI Rules For The Metaverse
DOJ/FTC Draft Merger Guidelines: More Second Requests and More Merger Litigation
Six Ways That AI Could Change Politics
The European Court Of Justice In Meta Platforms Leaves Competition And Data Protection Authorities With An Assignment
The Ripple Effect: Implications of the SEC’s Partial Loss in SEC v. Ripple Labs Inc.
The New Merger Guideline Commandments: Thirteen Is An Unlucky Number
Can we Limit Algorithmic Coordination?
Our Emerging Regulatory Approach To Big Tech And Artificial Intelligence