Information exchange: Motor insurers offer formal commitments to the OFT

Here.

Judge Posner on the interpretation of the pleading standard set forth in Twombly

IN RE: TEXT MESSAGING ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Appeal of: Verizon Wireless, et al., Defendants, No. 10-8037, here.

The Open Source Initiative's concerns regarding the recipient of Novell’s patent portfolio

Letter sent to the German Competition Authority (Bundeskartellamt). See also the letter sent by the FSFE, in German (original ) and English.

E-Learning: Intranet-Klausel ( § 52a Urheberrechtsgesetz) vor Gericht

Alfred Kröner Verlag gegen Fernuniversität in Hagen, Klageschrift.

Règles du code de procédure civile et pratiques anticoncurrentielles

Cour de cassation française, 7 janvier 2011 Société Philips France – Arrêt n° 587

"Comité des Sages" on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online presents its report "The new Renaissance"

Here. See also  the Summary Record of the public hearing of the Comité des Sages on "Bringing Europe's cultural heritage online".

IBM's Patent Application for an "Intellectual Property Component Business Model for Client Services"

Here.

WIPO Seminar Series on “The Economics of Intellectual Property”: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Intellectual Property and Litigation

Christine Greenhalgh, January 12, 2011 paper here.

A Brief Introduction to Competition Concerns in 'Pay-for-Delay' Settlement Agreements Between Brand-Name and Generic Drug Companies

R.Peritz, here.

The Capper-Volstead Act, Agricultural Cooperatives, and Antitrust Immunity

C.Varney, here.

Counterfactual Tests in Competition Law

C.Veljanovski, here.

Solving the Drug Settlement Problem: The Legislative Approach

M.A.Carrier, here.

Standards, Innovation Incentives, and the Formation of Patent Pools

K.M.Schmidt, here.

Politiques européennes de concurrence et économie sociale de marché

F.Marty, ici.

First evaluation of the impact of the Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights

Here.

La 'ley antidescargas' fracasa en el Congreso

El Pais, aqui.

Institutional Innovation or Institutional Imitation? The Impacts of TRIPs on Indiaʼs Patent Law and Practice

B. Sampat, here.

L'Autorité de la concurrence sanctionne des sous-traitants de Renault et Peugeot pour entente sur les prix mais pondère significativement les amendes en raison de leurs difficultés financières

Communiqué de presse et décision.

ANTITRUST AVVIA ISTRUTTORIA NEI CONFRONTI DI FS E RFI PER ABUSO DI POSIZIONE DOMINANTE NEL MERCATO DELL’ACCESSO ALL’INFRASTRUTTURA FERROVIARIA NAZIONALE

Qui.

The Antitrust/Intellectual Property Interface: Thoughts on How To Best Wade Through the Thicket in the Pharmaceutical Context

J.Rosch, here.

Copying an Entire Article and Fair Use

RIGHTHAVEN LLC  v. CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL
ORGANIZING, CASE NO.: 2:10-cv-01322-JCM-LRL, BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE
PROFESSOR JASON SCHULTZ

Changing International Landscape of Innovation and Intellectual Property

F.Gurry, here.

US Ambassador: Over-Focus On Development “Will Kill” WIPO

W.New, here. Official Transcript of Ambassador King’s December 16, 2010 Press Conference

Large-Scale Open Innovation: Open Source vs. Patent Pools

T.Raynay, L.Striukova, here.

Deutsche Bahn verklagt Karbon-Kartell

FAZ, hier.

EU weitet Verfahren gegen Google aus

Wirtschaftswoche, hier.

L’INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'AUDIOVISUEL (INA) C/ La Société YOUTUBE

TRIBUNAL DE GRANDE INSTANCE DE CRETEIL, Jugement du 14 Décembre 2010, DOSSIER : N° 06/1281, ici. 

European Interoperability Framework (EIF) for European public services

Here.

Microsoft-Organized Consortium Buying Novell Patents Are Apple, Oracle, MS, and EMC

Groklaw, here.

Bank Competition and Stability: Reconciling Conflicting Empirical Evidence

T. Beck, O. De Jonghe, G. Schepens, here.

Exchanges of Information and the New Horizontal Guidelines: Barolo or Beaujolais?

S.Grassani, here.

Brussels on the phone: the iPhone and competition policy

J.Padilla, here.

European Competition Network Brief

No. 5/2010 and Special Issue December 2010 - A look inside the ECN: its members and its work

EU Commission: Guidelines on the labelling of foodstuffs using protected designations of origin (PDOs) or protected geographical indications (PGIs) as ingredients

Here.

Wikimedia Deutschland will Creative Commons-Musterklagen unterstützen

Hier.

Recent Changes in the Regulation of Motor Vehicle Distribution in Europe – Questioning the Logic of Sector-Specific Rules for the Car Industry

S.Colino, here.

Enhanced cooperation mechanism's proposal for a unitary patent protection in the EU

Press release.

L'Autorité de la concurrence estime que Google est en position dominante sur le marché de la publicité liée aux moteurs de recherche

Avis n° 10-A-29 du 14 décembre 2010 sur le fonctionnement concurrentiel de la publicité en ligne.

EU Commission adopts revised competition rules on horizontal co-operation agreements

Press Release, Horizontal Guidelines, Block exemption regulations applicable to specialisation agreements and research and development agreements

OFT publishes new mergers guidance on exceptions to the duty to refer and remedies

Here.

Concerted Refusals to License Intellectual Property Right

C.Bohannan, H.Hovenkamp, here.

Information Exchanges among Competitors

Antonio CAPOBIANCO, OECD Competition Division, Exchange of Information among Competitors: Antitrust Challenges (Presentation)
Monday December 13, 2010 - 2 pm
Conference Room, Economics Faculty - Trento University
Via Inama, 5 TRENTO

Contrats d’affiliation de magasins indépendants et modalités d’acquisition de foncier commercial dans le secteur de la distribution alimentaire

Avis n° 10-A-26 du 7 décembre 2010 de l'Autorité de la Concurrence.

Have national competition authorities the power to take a decision stating that Article 102 TFEU is not applicable to the practices of an undertaking?

OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL MAZÁK.

Broccoli Breeding Patent to Be Invalidated

IP Frontline, here.

The European Patent Office and Google collaborate on machine translation

Here.

Unilateral Competitive Effects of Mergers Between Firms with High Profit Margins

E. B A I L E Y , G. L E O N A R D , A N D L.W U, here.

The Commission rules against the Ordre national des pharmaciens for restrictions on competition in the French clinical analysis market

Press release.

Protecting consumers online

OFT, here.

Fantasy and Reality in Intellectual Property Policy

J.Boyle, here.

On facilitating downloading from an illegal source in The Netherlands

FTD v Eyeworks, English translation here.

Theories of Harm in the Intel Case

P.DeGraba, J.Simpson, here.

U.S. copyright pressure on Canada: Wikileaks simply to confirm it?

M. Geist, here.

ACTA: The Final Text Following Legal Verification

Here.

Viacom v. YouTube: Viacom's Appellate Brief

Here, with a comment from Groklaw.

EE UU ejecutó un plan para conseguir una ley antidescargas

El Pais, aquí.

Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries

Ivan P.L. Png, WIPO SEMINAR SERIES ON  “THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”. Paper, Video.

Making CAMR Work: Streamlining Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, here.

Apertura de un expediente sancionador contra SGAE por posibles conductas restrictivas de la competencia,

Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, aqui

On social networking technology and regulation

E.Moglen, here.

Antitrust in Italy: Twenty Years' Experience

L.Fiorentino, AGCM, here (in Italian)

Converging paths in unilateral conduct

J. Amunia, here.

EU Commission confirms unannounced inspections in pharmaceutical sector

Here.

Competition and Innovation: ICT- and non-ICT-enabled Product and Process Innovations

D.Nepelski, here.

BGH zur Zulässigkeit der Verwertung von sogenannten Abstracts

Urteil vom 1. Dezember 2010 – I ZR 12/08 – Perlentaucher, s. die Pressemitteilung und das Urteil

EU Commission to probe allegations of antitrust violations by Google

Press Release, here.

US Supreme Court to Decide Standard for Proving Invalidity of a Patent

EFF, here.

More than a game

IP Colloquium, here.

Beyond Fair Use

Phil Weiser, Gideon Parchomovsky, here.

"Ohne Urheber keine kulturelle Vielfalt" - Zwölf-Punkte-Papier zum Schutz des geistigen Eigentums im digitalen Zeitalter

Kulturstaatsminister Bernd Neumann, hier.

YouTube et les auteurs français signent un accord déterminant

SACD, ici.

Kann der freie Zugang zu einem gewichtigen Teil des kulturellen Erbes, zu den verwaisten Werken und damit zu einem gewichtigen Teil des Commons, in Europa bald Wirklichkeit werden? Vielleicht, aber …

R.Kuhlen, hier.

MEDITERRANEAN COMPETITION BULLETIN

N.2, November 2010.

The Second Decade of the International Competition Network: Challenges Ahead?

Oliver BUDZINSKI, University of Southern Denmark, "The Governance of Global Competition:  Challenges for the Second Decade of the ICN"

Alessandra TONAZZI, Italian Competition Authority, "The Governance of Global Competition: ICN’s Next Decade"

Friday November 26, 2010 8:30 am
Trento Economics Faculty, Law Department
Room 3
via Verdi 53
Trento - Italy

ICN 2010 UNILATERAL CONDUCT WORKSHOP: LIVE WEBCAST

Agenda, Webcast.

Certification of a claim as a consumer class action following a bread price fixing cartel in South Africa dismissed

Here.

Senate's Inquiry into the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Franklins decision

Here (from Australian Competition Law)

AG Hamburg zu Urheberrechtsverletzungen durch RSS-Feeds

A. Schneider, hier.

The U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate on alleged smartphone-related patent infringements

Here.

Smart Wars - Um Smartphone-Technologien ist ein regelrechter Patentkrieg entbrannt

F.Müller, hier.

Current Issues in Competition and Consumer Protection Enforcement in the Retail Sector

J.T.Rosch, FTC, here.

Italian Mastercard Competition Decision Partly Annulled

TAR Lazio, here.

Entflechtung als Instrument des Kartellrechts

Sitzung des Arbeitskreises Kartellrecht, Pressemeldung und Arbeitspapier

Google on information flows and international trade law

Enabling Trade in the Era of Information Technologies: Breaking Down Barriers to the Free Flow of Information

BOLETÍN LATINOAMERICANO DE COMPETENCIA N. 27

Aquí.

UK Court of Appeal Closes the Door on “Opt-Out” Class Actions

White & Case, here.

Pratiques mises en oeuvre dans le secteur de la télévision payante

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision du 16 novembre 2010

TRANSATLANTIC AIRLINE ALLIANCES: COMPETITIVE ISSUES AND REGULATORY APPROACHES

A report by the European Commission and the United States Department of Transportation

ON THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC CRISES ON ANTITRUST POLICY

M.Lao, here.

Indian Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance

Here

Healthy competition is good environmental policy

Competition Policy and Green Growth, Report from the Nordic competition authorities.

ACTA: Negotiations Concluded

See the final version and the joint statement from all the negotiating partners of the agreement

Dynamic Efficiencies and Technological Progress in EC Merger Control

C.Allmendinger, here.

Entwicklung des Urheberrechts in der digitalen Gesellschaft

29. November 2010, öffentliche Expertenanhörung veranstaltet von der Enquete-Kommission Internet und digitale Gesellschaft. Video  und Stellungsnahmen zur Anhörung hier.. 

BT and TalkTalk win Digital Economy Act review

Here (Marketing Week).

Linksetzung, technisch unwirksame Schutzmaßnahme und Urheberrechtsverletzung

Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), Urteil des I. Zivilsenats vom 29.4.2010 - I ZR 39/08

Deins, meins, unseres. Kulturen des Urheberrechts

Vortrag von Reto Hilty auf dem Netzpolitischen Kongress der Grünen live gebloggt

The 2010 Merger Guidelines: Do We Need Them? Are They All We Need?

G.Leonard, here.

Italian Competition Authority to Investigate Sky's World Cup Sport Rights Exclusivity

Press release (in Italian only), from the Authority's website.

Validité d'une licence CC reconnue en Belgique

Tribunal de première instance de Nivelles, ici.