When Did Walmart Become a Public Utility?
In a Medium post on Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed subjecting America’s tech sector to utility regulation. The proposal comes […]
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Why Android Enforcement Action Is Potentially Counterproductive and Unlikely to Succeed
Stephen Houck, Special Counsel to Offit Kurman, P.A., played a prominent role in the prosecution of the government’s monopolization case […]
Is Android Case Like Microsoft? Antitrust Cases Turn on Facts
Stephen Houck, Special Counsel to Offit Kurman, P.A., played a prominent role in the prosecution of the government’s monopolization case […]
The Sun Rises on the CLOUD Act
Last month, Congress passed the CLOUD (“Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data”) Act, legislation designed to address the complex conflict […]
The Great Antitrust Breakup: Often Threatened, Rarely Executed
The breakup is something that has been normalized in our conversations about large companies. One may be forgiven for thinking […]
Digital Assistants: How Artificial Intelligence Competition is Undermining “Hipster Antitrust” – Part II
Yesterday’s post reviewed the burgeoning competition in the still relatively new artificial intelligence (AI) space of voice-powered digital assistants, ending […]
Digital Assistants: How Artificial Intelligence Competition is Undermining “Hipster Antitrust” – Part I
There has been a lot of hype among so-called “hipster antitrust” advocates about large Internet companies, with high-profile allegations that […]
Governments should resolve, rather than create, new conflicts of privacy laws
The cross-border nature of the Internet disrupts the traditional notion of geographically defined national jurisdictions. Increasingly, contradicting privacy laws confuse […]
How We Got to Now? Not Just with IP.
Tomorrow night airs the third episode of PBS’s miniseries based on Steven Johnson’s book, How We Got to Now: Six […]
K-Cups, Innovation and Interoperability
Even before the landmark United States v. Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, competition law was a bit schizophrenic when it came to the […]
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