The canonical story of the modern tech firm still starts in a metaphorical garage. William Hewlett and David Packard with the audio oscillator. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with the …
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In standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing, every procedural tweak is also a skirmish over bargaining power. That is what makes licensing negotiation groups (LNGs) more than an obscure acronym in the …
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The European Commission published its draft “guidelines on the assessment of mergers under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings” yesterday. The title does what …
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Brazil’s digital markets do not need a regulatory savior so much as a careful doctor. Bill 4,675/2025 arrives with the bedside manner of a reform, but the instruments of major …
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A familiar pattern has taken hold in platform regulation—and in the academic and policy commentary that surrounds it. Critics spot a real phenomenon, recast it as market failure, and then …
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The European Commission’s first review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) lands at an awkward moment. Just as Brussels begins to test whether its flagship digital regulation works, AI threatens …
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African competition authorities are importing the wrong model of competition enforcement—and doing so without the institutional capacity to make even the right model work. Across the continent, regulators are reaching …
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Not all supposed barriers to entry are created equal. The ones that matter for antitrust are not just costs, advantages, or inputs controlled by leading firms. They are durable impediments …
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When does a discount cross the line from competition to exclusion? That question now sits before a federal district court weighing the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) antitrust case against Visa …
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When a new product or service appears, some public officials default to helicopter regulation. The instinct to “do something, anything” rarely pays off—just ask helicopter parents and their kids. An …