After a thorough review of the proposed transaction, the Antitrust Division has determined that the combination of T-Mobile and MetroPCS is unlikely to harm consumers or substantially lessen competition and has closed its investigation.

The Department of Justice today filed a motion to dismiss its antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan after the state of Michigan passed a law that prohibits health insurers from using most favored nation clauses in contracts with health care providers.

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today issued the 2013 edition of its annual newsletter on its website.

Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division issued the following statement today on changes to the division’s carve-out practice regarding corporate plea agreements.

"We use our tools—criminal and civil enforcement, together with focused and effective competition advocacy—to ensure that consumers get the full advantage of our free-market economy," said Assistant Attorney General Baer.

After a thorough investigation of the competitive effects of the proposed equity investment and joint venture, the Antitrust Division concluded that the facts and circumstances did not warrant further investigation or action.

MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. will pay a $720,000 civil penalty to settle charges that the company violated premerger reporting and waiting requirements when it acquired voting securities of Scientific Games Corporation.

Corporate investor Barry Diller will pay a $480,000 civil penalty to settle charges that he violated premerger reporting and waiting requirements when he acquired voting securities of The Coca Cola Company.

"After carefully weighing the evidence, the court agreed with the Justice Department and 33 state attorneys general that executives at the highest levels of Apple orchestrated a conspiracy with five major publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & to raise e-book prices."

The Department of Justice, six state attorneys general and the District of Columbia filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today challenging the proposed $11 billion merger between US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines’ parent corporation, AMR Corp.

There were more than a dozen separate conspiracies each operating independently but all targeting the U.S. automotive industry. Some of the price-fixing conspiracies lasted for a decade or longer, and many car models were fitted with multiple parts that were fixed by the auto parts suppliers.

Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer and FBI Assistant Director Ronald T. Hosko testify on cartel prosecution before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights

"We are pleased that the court, after carefully weighing all of the evidence, agreed with the Justice Department that Bazaarvoice’s acquisition of PowerReviews was likely to extinguish price competition and substantially diminish the pace of innovation in the market for product ratings and reviews platforms," said Assistant Attorney General Baer.

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division issued a statement after announcing the closing of its investigation into Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s use of its portfolio of standards-essential patents that it had committed to license to industry participants on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (SEPs) to exclude certain Apple, Inc. products from the U.S. market.

The heads of the antitrust agencies of the United States, Canada and Mexico – Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Chairwoman Edith Ramirez of the Federal Trade Commission, Canadian Commissioner of Competition John Pecman and President Alejandra Palacios Prieto of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission – met today in Washington, D.C., to discuss their mutual efforts to ensure continued effective antitrust enforcement cooperation in our increasingly interconnected markets.

The Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Competition Bureau Canada today issued a set of “best practices” to make more transparent how they coordinate merger reviews that affect the United States and Canada.

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today issued the 2014 edition of its annual newsletter on its website.

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced a new streamlined procedure that will lower the costs and expedite the review process for parties seeking to modify or terminate old antitrust settlements and litigated judgments.

Romano Pisciotti, an Italian national, was extradited from Germany on a charge of participating in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids, fixing prices and allocating market shares for sales of marine hose sold in the United States and elsewhere.

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission today issued a policy statement on the sharing of cybersecurity information that makes clear that properly designed cyber threat information sharing is not likely to raise antitrust concerns and can help secure the nation’s networks of information and resources.

"This is an antitrust no-brainer: Companies who engage in properly designed cyber threat information sharing will not run afoul of the antitrust laws. This means that as long as companies don’t discuss competitive information such as pricing and output when sharing cybersecurity information, they’re okay," said Assistant Attorney General Baer.

"This joint guidance is an important step in making clear that legitimate cyber threat sharing can help secure the nation’s networks and that it can occur without raising antitrust liability issues."

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to pay an $896,000 civil penalty to settle charges that it violated premerger reporting and waiting requirements when it acquired voting securities of USG Corp., the Department of Justice announced today

Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has signed an antitrust cooperation agreement with the Colombian antitrust agency on behalf of the Department of Justice. The agreement also was signed by Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and went into effect today with the signature of Pablo Felipe Robledo, Colombia’s Superintendent of Industry and Commerce.

Two years ago, Brookings Institution scholars William Galston and Clara Hendrickson highlighted signs that U.S. antitrust enforcement was undergoing a “serious re-evaluation.” Around that time, members of both the House and Senate introduced antitrust bills, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to evaluate the consumer welfare standard, and the Department of Justice filed an…

Antitrust enforcers need to be vigilant in these uncertain and troubling times. Think about the effect on consumers from price gouging, price fixing, mergers in concentrated markets and the unilateral exercise of monopoly power. We rely on vigorous rivalry between firms—in good times and bad—to deliver us quality goods and services at competitive prices. The…

All over Thanksgiving, and with only a tiny press release...

European Commission may be preparing for formal case against Google, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Even if efficiencies and efficiency claims have been vigorously discussed for decades, they have rarely turned out to be decisive in competition proceedings. Still, their role in competition law has recently gained greater prominence, as witnessed by a number of recent merger decisions in different jurisdictions. This publication reviews the findings from a roundtable discussion held in October 2012.

This report investigates how competition agencies can respond to the challenges posed by the multi-sided nature of platform markets, which are particularly common in the digital economy.

Missouri raises competition and privacy questions in company’s home market

Pressure on search giant rises following regulatory successes in Europe

Competition law should take changing business models into account

On Tuesday, several state attorneys general investigating Google met with Justice Department officials to coordinate their efforts to probe the search and advertising giant.

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Following scrutiny, companies are proposing remedies for mergers that will consolidate the titanium dioxide and industrial gas industries

Updated: June 2012

Today, every international transaction has potential antitrust implications. Before you risk anything in foreign trade, consult the fifth edition of Wilbur L Fugate's Foreign Commerce and the Antitrust Laws. He offers expert analysis of how U.S. antitrust laws affect companies' abilities to import and export goods, invest in foreign companies and enter into joint ventures and other trading arrangements.

It provides in-depth discussion of current statutory and case law, as well as expert analysis of the latest developments, including areas like foreign licensing of intellectual property, transnational mergers and acquisitions, and transportation restrictions and other problems of international distribution. You will find everything you need to ensure protection under - and compliance with - today's far-reaching antitrust and competition laws.

Table of Contents:

• Volume I
  • Chapter 1: Antitrust Statutes – Basic Philosophy and General Interpretation
  • Chapter 2: Jurisdiction Over Foreign Commerce Under the Antitrust Laws
  • Chapter 3: Antitrust Jurisdiction in Personam Over Corporations Operating Abroad
  • Chapter 4: Application of Antitrust Laws to International Trade Practices Generally
  • Chapter 5: Rule of Reason, Ancillary Restraints, and Antitrust Defenses
  • Chapter 6: Monopilization in Foreign Trade
  • Chapter 7: The Webb-Pomerene Act and the Export Trading Company Act
• Volume II
  • Chapter 8: Patents and Technology
  • Chapter 9: Trademarks in Foreign Trade
  • Chapter 10: Foreign Subsidiaries and Acquisitions
  • Chapter 11: Foreign and Foreign-Related Joint Ventures
  • Chapter 12: Foreign Investment – Including Multinational Enterprise Aspects
  • Chapter 13: Auxiliary Antitrust Statutes and Antitrust Provisions of Regulatory Statutes
  • Chapter 14: Nature of Antitrust Judgments and Relief in Foreign Trade
  • Chapter 15: Foreign Antitrust Laws
• Appendices
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• Index

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The authority of Antitrust Law is second to none. It has been cited more than 50 times by both the Supreme Court and FTC and more than 1,000 times by the federal courts. Most recently it was cited by the Supreme Court in Pacific Bell v LinkLine Communications.

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Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Objectives of the Antitrust Laws
• Chapter 2: Domain of the Antitrust Laws: Jurisdiction, Immunities, and Exclusion from Coverage
• Chapter 3: The System of Remedies: Basic Issues
• Chapter 4: The Economic Basis for Antitrust Policy
• Chapter 5: Market Power and Market Definition
• Chapter 6: Monopolization
• Chapter 7: Monopolization: Particular Exclusionary Practices
• Chapter 8: Power and the Power-Conduct Relationship in Monopolization and Attempt
• Chapter 9: Mergers: Generally and Horizontal
• Chapter 10: Vertical Mergers
• Chapter 11: Conglomerate Mergers
• Chapter 12: Partial Acquisitions and Post-Acquisition Evidence
• Chapter 13: Interlocking Directors
• Chapter 14: Conspiracy, Horizontal and Vertical
• Chapter 15: "Rule of Reason" and "Per Se Rule" - General Issues
• Chapter 16: Vertical Distribution Restraints Limiting Intrabrand Competition
• Chapter 17: Tying Arrangements
• Chapter 18: Exclusive Dealing and Related Practices
• Chapter 19: Horizontal Agreements: An Introduction
• Chapter 20: Horizontal Agreements Limiting Participants' Output
• Chapter 21: Horizontal Agreements Facilitating Development, Production, or Distribution
• Chapter 22: Horizontal Agreements Excluding Rivals
• Chapter 23: The Robinson-Patman Act
• Chapter 24: State Antitrust Law: A Brief Introduction
• Complete Table of Contents
• Chapter Table of Cases
• Index

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