Anti-Competitive

DTCC Sues CFTC Over “Anti-Competitive Swap Trading Data Rules”

by Elan Mendel | Shipkevich PLLC on 5/6/2013

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) sued the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday claiming that the derivatives regulator made “anti-competitive rules,” regarding swap trading data, that favor two...more

Competition Tribunal Dismisses Commissioner’s Application Against TREB and Confirms That Abuse of Dominance Applies Only When...

by Michelle Lally | Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP on 4/19/2013

In an unexpectedly brief decision dated April 15, 2013, the Competition Tribunal dismissed the Commissioner of Competition’s application challenging certain practices of the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) under the abuse of...more

Par/Paddock Answers FTC Before Supreme Court

by Kevin E. Noonan | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 2/28/2013

Par PharmaceuticalPar/Paddock, one of the generic drug company defendants in FTC v. Actavis Inc. et al. (the "reverse payment" ANDA settlement case now before the Supreme Court) filed its reponsive brief last week. In it,...more

When Will They Learn? Doctors Continue to Face Antitrust Charges for Jointly Negotiating Contracts without Clinical or Financial...

by Jonathan Lewis | BakerHostetler on 2/25/2013

Legitimate joint marketing and selling arrangements have the potential to produce efficiencies. This is particularly so, for example, where the arrangement enables the participants to make or market products that they could...more