Antitrust

Your company is introducing a new product design.  It offers consumers novel benefits, but the redesign is incompatible with competitors’ complementary products.  The foreclosure of competition is great for your bottom line.  But will it violate the antitrust laws? Liability for innovation seems counter to the purposes of the antitrust laws.  Indeed, the antitrust laws…

There’s a battle brewing at the Federal Trade Commission. And the outcome could affect businesses far and wide. Over two blistering dissents, FTC Chair Lina Khan reiterated the commission’s intent to issue rules defining unfair methods of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act. This has never been done. Some say the FTC lacks…