Watson and reverse payments: an opportunity to resolve the competing tension between antitrust and patent law under the Hatch-Waxman Act *

USA - March 8 2013
On March 25, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and take a step toward concluding…

Co-authors: Alan R Kusinitz, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

---

Betting on the wrong market definition *

USA - March 8 2013
In IGT v. Alliance Gaming Corporation slot machine manufacturers, IGT and Alliance Gaming Corp., Bally Gaming International, Inc., and Bally…

Co-authors: Alan R Kusinitz, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

---

Judge Posner on the limits of the per se rule against price fixing *

USA - March 8 2013
Every so often a case finds its way to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which provides Judge Richard Posner, the noted antitrust scholar and…

Co-authors: Alan R Kusinitz, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

---

Federal Trade Commission announces 2013 threshold revisions for HSR Act and for Clayton Act Section 8 prohibition on interlocking directorates *

USA - January 14 2013
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, commonly known as the HSR Act, requires parties to certain corporate transactions to notify…

Co-authors: Alan R Kusinitz, John R Ingrassia, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe.

---

Exchange of employee wage information: what is permitted under the antitrust laws? *

USA - October 12 2012
The exchange of wage-related information between two competitors may not be a per se violation of antitrust laws, according to a Federal court in Michigan.

Co-authors: Alan R Kusinitz, Ronald S Rauchberg, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

---