…interoperate; instead, the proposal forces a handful of companies to give it away. As discussed below, H.R. 3849 uses the terms “competing,” “potentially competing,” “competing businesses” and “interoperability” but neither…

Arthur Sidney · August 5, 2021

…the year we reported that Chinese companies saw a big rise in competitiveness in new markets like digital assistants. That competitiveness has only increased, and American tech companies have a…

Matthew Lane · December 30, 2019

…concept years ago. But it keeps stumbling onward–most recently in chatter Monday about the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing campaign to free up spectrum. A front-page story in the Washington Post…

Rob Pegoraro · February 5, 2013

The 60-Second Read: Recent commentary on competition law and policy might lead one to believe that size is all that matters in the competition policy sphere: big is bad; small…

Marianela Lopez-Galdos · October 5, 2017

…when a practice harms competition in a way that competition law disapproves of. But to define abuse of dominance as employing practices that “are detrimental to [consumers] through their impact…

Project Disco · February 26, 2019

…which European courts have crafted the so-called ‘essential facilities’ test to analyze whether a competition law breach exists when a dominant company refuses to deal with a competitor. In short,…

Marianela Lopez-Galdos · April 19, 2018

…about competition or the welfare of users. Ultimately, the bill would have negative effects on competition, innovation, and privacy. The only winners here are multi-billion dollar companies like Epic Games,…

Arthur Sidney · January 31, 2022

…these questions into: would you like to break the Internet as we know it and criminalize Internet users for viewing a web-page? These questions are not theoretical; they are currently…

Jakob Kucharczyk · February 7, 2014

…think long and hard before harming a company’s ability to discourage fragmentation of an open source project. Having a market with open source and proprietary software competing with one another…

Daniel O'Connor · April 13, 2017

…all failed to date.) From that perspective, the Comcast-TiVo agreement to move beyond CableCard for integrated STBs offers the possibility of a true competitive market test between proprietary and open…

Glenn Manishin · September 12, 2014