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Abuse of IP rights under China's antitrust rules: recent cases have a potentially serious impact

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 22 2013

Corporations doing business in China, based on their intellectual property (IP) rights, need to be aware of the potentially serious impact of China's

Ninth Circuit weighs in on compulsory nature of antitrust claims and choice of law issues

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of antitrust claims, finding that the claims in issue were compulsory counterclaims that the defendant had failed to plead in response to a prior patent infringement lawsuit

German Federal Court of Justice takes a stand in Orange Book Standard

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 27 2009

The antitrust division of the Federal Court of Justice in Germany delivered a landmark judgment in the Orange Book Standard proceeding dealing with the use of the so-called "compulsory license objection under anti-trust law

Antitrust claims against patent pool

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 30 2008

In a terse non-precedential decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a 2006 district court order dismissing antitrust claims against participants in an international patent pool arrangement

Rambus decision: lawful monopolist’s allegedly deceptive conduct not actionable under the antitrust laws

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2008

Despite the D.C. Circuit decision, firms should remain cautious in dealing with standard-setting bodies

Caution for competition defence

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2008

In The Football Association Premier League Limited & Others v LCD Publishing Limited 2007 EWHC 3171 (CH), the English High Court considered an application to strike out a restraint of trade and competition defence

Decryption of Premier League matches with imported decoder cards: is there a competition defence?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2008

The matter in dispute in Football Association v QC Leisure & Others 2008 EWHC 44 (Ch) was the possible anticompetitive effect of contracts between the Football Association (FA) and foreign broadcasters for the broadcasting of Premier League football matches

Foreign fame is not enough to justify trademark protection in New York

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2008

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit certified two questions to New York’s highest court regarding New York common law claims for unfair competition based on goodwill

Two Federal Circuit decisions clarify Walker Process antitrust claims

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2007

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently decided two cases involving Walker Process antitrust claims

‘Horses for courses’: should competition law shape IP rights?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 23 2007

The British Horseracing Board (BHB) is the monopolist seller of pre-race data, which consists of information concerning the name and the time of races, the course where a race will run, the race distance, the criteria for entry in the race, the names of the horses entered and declared runners, their saddlecloth and stall numbers, their ages, weights, official ratings, jockeys', trainers' and owners' names