April 05, 2012
Rambus appeals jury trial verdict finding for Micron and Hynix
Rambus has appealed its loss of a jury trial that rejected its claims of a Micron-Hynix conspiracy against Rambus’s memory chips. Rambus had accused the rival chip companies of colluding...
April 04, 2012
37-month prison sentence for Ocean Bank VP who accepted bribes
Danilo P. Perez, a former vice president of Ocean Bank, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald L. Graham to 37 months in prison for his role in a bribery...
April 04, 2012
Sublime Technologies and Silicon Technology granted leave to intervene in...
The Competition Tribunal has granted Sublime Technologies and Silicon Technology leave to intervene in the review of the Competition Commission’s blocked mine sale. The Commission had prohibited a R259 million...
April 04, 2012
Second Circuit revives Anderson News’s dismissed lawsuit against magazine suppliers...
The Second Circuit has vacated a district court’s dismissal of Anderson News’s antitrust lawsuit against magazine suppliers and competitors. Anderson News had claimed that the defendants conspired to drive Anderson...
April 03, 2012
TripAdvisor files antitrust lawsuit against Google
TripAdvisor has filed an antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission. The complaint comes on the heels of Expedia’s complaint against Google, and like Expedia, TripAdvisor alleges anticompetitive and...
April 03, 2012
Network Neutrality & Antitrust
Kevin Coates, Mar 30, 2012 The concern underlying the network neutrality debate is that owners of consumer broadband data networks-initially wired networks, but now also wireless networks-might discriminate against, or...
April 03, 2012
“Symbolic penalty” imposed on security business associations for transfer clause
The National Competition Commission Council has ruled that, in principle, transfer clauses (agreements for the transfer of employees contained in a collective agreement) do not restrain competition. The Council found...
April 03, 2012
Settlement reached in seafood price-fixing class action lawsuit
Pacific Seafood and West Coast fishermen have reached a settlement to resolve allegations brought in a class action lawsuit. The plaintiff class claimed that Pacific, the U.S.’s largest seafood buyer,...
April 03, 2012
Power producers must send their gas supply contracts with Tamar...
The Antitrust Authority has ordered power producers that have signed gas supply contracts with the Tamar partners to send the regulator their contracts for approval. The Tamar partners are Noble...