Archive for December, 2010
December 29, 2010
Earlier this month, Canada passed its long-awaited anti-spam bill (Bill C-28 – the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act) (“FISA”).
December 28, 2010
The Department of Justice has announced that it has reached a settlement with Lucasfilm Ltd. to prevent it from entering into agreements restraining employee recruitment. The announcement by the DoJ follows its investigation of the employment practices of high tech companies, including Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp. and Pixar.
December 26, 2010
Derek Ireland, Steve Szentesi and Subhadip Ghosh
Regardless of the jurisdiction or the experience of its competition authorities, every competition agency has limited resources compared with the huge number of transactions and the potentially large number of anticompetitive practices and arrangements that take place in a typical month or year in a developing or emerging market economy. Every competition agency therefore learns how to target its limited resources in a manner that generates maximum benefits for competition and the consumer.
December 21, 2010
The Competition Bureau announced earlier today that it has laid criminal charges against eight companies and five individuals in Quebec that are accused of rigging bids for private sector ventilation contracts for residential highrise buildings in the Montreal area (see: Charges Laid in Residential Construction Bid-Rigging Scheme in Montreal and Competition Bureau, Backgrounder, Charges Laid in Residential Construction Bid-Rigging Scheme in Montreal).
December 20, 2010
Dr. Derek Ireland
As many of you know, competition law in India has had a long and difficult history. India’s first competition law, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act (MRTPA) of 1969 was based on the British model of the period. The MRTPA was for the most part ineffective for its first 20 years, largely because the economy continued to be dominated by government, state owned enterprises, and privately owned business groups and other larger companies that were supported and protected by government.
December 16, 2010
Steve Szentesi and Tom Hakemi will be presenting a lunch and learn seminar at Synergy Business Lawyers in Vancouver on December 17, 2010.
Competition Bureau Tests New Price Maintenance Provisions with Challenge Against Visa and MasterCard
December 15, 2010
The Competition Bureau announced earlier today that it had filed an application with the federal Competition Tribunal, and was launching a challenge, against Visa and MasterCard in relation to alleged “restrictive and anti-competitive rules that Visa and MasterCard impose on merchants who accept their credit cards.”
December 14, 2010
On December 14th, the European Commission issued its final revised rules on horizontal co-operation agreements (“Horizontal Guidelines”).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
