The State of Texas and Google have warned a Texas federal court that accepting their opponent’s proposed trial dates would give the other an unfair advantage, after each party suggested hearing dates that differ by nearly 18 months.
Apple’s top App Store executive has attempted to fend off attacks against the platform, while also stating that he was unaware of a plan to lock consumers into the company’s ecosystem – a central part of Epic Games’ monopolisation lawsuit against the iPhone-maker.
Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, does not compete with gaming consoles over video game sales, a Microsoft executive has told a California federal court hearing Epic Games’ monopolisation case against Apple.
The federal judge presiding over Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple has asked Epic's chief executive Tim Sweeney about his backup plan if she rules in favour of the iPhone-maker.
Epic Games and Apple have presented a California federal court with clashing portraits of the App Store ecosystem and whether the iPhone-maker’s restrictions on distribution and payments are justified.
Gail Levine – the last of the antitrust holdovers from the Joseph Simons-era at the Federal Trade Commission – departed earlier this month after helping the next administration get situated. The former deputy director of the FTC’s bureau of competition spoke with GCR USA about the need for additional funding and her experience overseeing the agency’s technology and pharmaceutical shops during a pandemic.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a ground-breaking decision in the litigation between doormakers Jeld-Wen and Steves and Son, confirming a divestiture order in a private merger dispute for the first time. Winston & Strawn partners Susannah Torpey and Neely Agin explore how the ruling might be used by private plaintiffs to challenge allegedly anticompetitive deals in technology markets, while also highlighting some of the …
As the Federal Trade Commission’s general counsel, Alden Abbott sought to protect the agency’s ability to claw-back defendants’ ill-gotten gains, helped author its novel 1-800 Contacts decision and consulted regularly with individual commissioners. Now a senior research fellow with George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, Abbott spoke with GCR USA about his three-year stint as the FTC's chief legal officer, the agency's Qualcomm case and proposed antitrust policy reforms.
Daniel Francis spent much of his more than three-year tenure at the Federal Trade Commission focused on digital market issues, most recently as deputy director of the Bureau of Competition. In a conversation with GCR USA, he spoke about his agency’s track record tackling nascent competition concerns, the need for more resources and how the high-profile Facebook litigation will help write a new chapter for digital antitrust enforcement.
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