…Senate Commerce Committee: “Protecting Consumer Privacy” (Sept. 29, 2021) Senate Commerce Committee: “Revisiting the Need for Federal Data Privacy Legislation” (Sept. 23, 2020) House Energy & Commerce Committee: “Oversight of…

Project Disco · January 28, 2021

…challenging a patent are borne by an individual company, but the benefits are conferred to the industry at large. This incentivizes “free riding” where individual companies count on other people…

Daniel O'Connor · January 31, 2013

…concludes by suggesting that if an anti-competitive practice is truly anti-competitive, we need not presume that it is so, because the evidence of those practices will already be there. A…

Ryan Johnston · November 27, 2019

…However, a new debate on RPM is rising due to European competition authorities that are challenging resale price maintenance practices in digital economies. This debate revolves around manufacturers using sophisticated…

Matthew Lane · March 26, 2019

…and Internet-centric commerce received in the speech. Although this might seem like common sense given the immense role that the Internet plays in international commerce (particularly trade in services), the…

Daniel O'Connor · June 26, 2014

…that prior commitments made by patent holders and new commitments made by the purchasers, not to use patents against open-source software (or to abide by prior FRAND commitments) would be…

Daniel O'Connor · August 2, 2012

…Competition moved past Windows dominance of desktop computing and created a powerful market in mobile computing that Microsoft has been largely left out of. The Microsoft case shows that competition…

Matthew Lane · March 13, 2018

…not in itself mean that competition authorities need to intervene. Competition law is concerned with anticompetitive conduct causing consumer harm. Hence, a competition law analysis of barriers to entry only…

Jakob Kucharczyk · May 7, 2015

…the cost of forced localisation and the communication strategies of the cloud industry. Matthias Langenegger is Deputy Geneva Representative in the Geneva office of the Computer & Communications Industry Association….

Matthias Langenegger · March 26, 2014

…successful companies by making them pay for less competitive sectors (such as former telecom monopolists) isn’t going to help our competitiveness either. So, Europe needs to find new ways of…

Daniel Friedlaender · September 12, 2024