Antitrust Counseling

Clients rely on AV&H to provide guidance on a variety of antitrust issues that arise in their daily business affairs.  We often are called upon to develop antitrust compliance programs for clients and to train their personnel to minimize the risk of exposure to criminal or civil antitrust violations.  Trade associations and joint ventures rely on our advice to ensure that they comply with the antitrust laws.  Clients in a myriad of industries ranging from high technology to manufacturing to entertainment regularly seek our advice on antitrust issues related to, among other things:

·        forming joint ventures

·        licensing and terminating distributors

·        entering into exclusive relationships

·        pricing decisions, including Robinson-Patman Act issues

·        licensing patents

·        settling patent litigations

Articles & Treatises

• Antitrust Issues in IP Licensing
• Antitrust's New Big Brother: Feds Can Now Wiretap Suspected Offenders
• "Schering" Overruled: Risk of Settling Patent Suits Reduced?
• Tying and Exclusive Purchasing Arrangements Under EC Competition Law

Newsletters

• Congress Allows Federal Investigators to Wiretap Suspected Antitrust Offenders
• Supreme Court Rejects Robinson-Patman Liability for Sporadic Price Discrimination
• Justice Department Challenges Information Exchange Concerning Contract Clauses
• Eleventh Circuit Overrules FTC’s Schering-Plough Decision, Possibly Reducing Antitrust Risk of Settling Patent Disputes