Archive for the 'Competition Law' Category
May 11, 2014
My colleague Andrei Mincov recently published a very interesting and innovative new book on intellectual property law, entitled The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Intellectual Property.
May 8, 2014
Earlier today, the C.D. Howe Institute issued the second of two reports on the Canada/U.S. “price gap” issue: Cross-Border Price Regulation: Anti-Competition Policy? For my comments on the first report, issued two days ago see: here.
May 8, 2014
Guest post by Jarod Bona
(Bona Law PC – reprinted with permission)
Law school exams are all about issue spotting. Sure, after you spot the issue, you must describe the elements and apply them correctly. But the important skill is, in fact, issue spotting. In the real world, you can look up a claim’s elements; in fact, you should do that anyway because the law can change.
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May 7, 2014
Canada’s CRTC, one of three federal agencies that will be administering and enforcing Canada’s upcoming federal anti-spam legislation (CASL), has issued new Frequently Asked Questions: Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation: FAQs. CASL comes largely into force July 1, 2014.
May 7, 2014
Earlier today (or was that yesterday?), the New Zealand Commerce Commission (ComCom) launched what I thought was a very interesting new competition law compliance website focused on the construction industry called “Construction Site” (http://construction.comcom.govt.nz).
May 6, 2014
Earlier today, the C.D. Howe Institute issued a new report on the Canada/U.S. retail price gap issue entitled Sticker Shock: The Causes of the Canada-US Price Differential (authored by Nicholas Li). This new report argues that Canada/U.S. price differences are not the result of price gouging or monopoly power of Canadian retailers, but rather Canadian government regulation, including high tariffs and supply management policies.
May 5, 2014
Earlier today, the Canadian Competition Bureau issued something a little different – its inaugural “Annual Plan”, which evidently is part of its overall transparency and compliance initiatives.
This short, strategic document includes a few interesting points. These include some current performance and enforcement statistics, including in relation to recent: information requests (8,000+); complaints (4,000+) (I had recalled this figure to have been higher in recent years); Immunity and Leniency Program applications (10 and 11 respectively); search warrants (14); and merger position statements (11).
May 2, 2014
The Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced earlier today that criminal charges have been laid in a federal government IT contract-related bid-rigging case. According to the Bureau, the charges relate to allegations that an IT services company, its former owner and several former employees, as well as several former federal government employees were involved in an illegal bid-rigging arrangement relating to the provision of IT services to Library and Archives Canada.
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Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
