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Whither Antitrust?

April 6, 2009

A new administration often means a new approach to federal agency enforcement of the antitrust laws.  And, a shift from Republican to Democrat often means more aggressive enforcement by the DOJ and FTC.  The business and legal communities want to know, what can we expect? James W. Lowe and Thomas Mueller of Wilmer Hale attempt

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Is It Safe? Cloud Computing, That Is

March 28, 2009

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) doesn’t think so, at least when it comes to Google’s so-called “Cloud Computing Services” (e.g., gmail, picassa, google calender). Here is a link to the complaint EPIC has filed with the Federal Trade Commission. Quoting from the Complaint: Google routinely represents to consumers that documents stored on Google servers

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FTC v. Rambus: the Issues in a Nutshell

January 19, 2009

I’d been planning to post a short summary of the legal issues in the FTC’s petition to the Supreme Court in the Rambus case, but I’ve noticed that Professor Michael A. Carrier of Rutgers University School of Law has done this, and done it brilliantly in a post published on the Patently-O Blog, so I

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Amici Briefs Supporting Supreme Court Review in FTC v. Rambus

December 25, 2008

When old engineers (and old lawyers) sit around decades from now reminiscing about patent and antitrust law in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the name of Rambus is sure to come up.  The topic will not be the Rambus DRAM (or RDRAM) chip technologies, but rather the massive volume of litigation that Rambus set

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The FTC and DOJ – "So Sorry, but When it Comes to Sherman Action Section 2 Conduct, We Can't Agree on What the Law Is, or What it Should Be"

November 4, 2008

The Federal government has two antitrust enforcement authorities – the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. These two agencies have partially overlapping enforcement authority over civil cases, and they often collaborate in setting antitrust policy. Although the federal courts are the final arbiters of the federal antitrust laws (which

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