Wednesday, September 28, 2022

In Senate testimony, U.S. antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter urged adoption of Open App Markets Act as end of legislative term is approaching fast

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Yesterday, President Biden tweeted the following, which is spot-on: Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It's exploitation...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

U.S. class action lawyers argue Apple's App Store commission would be cut in half if Apple had to face competing iOS app stores, apparently want Apple to dole out tens of billions of dollars to iPhone users

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The Pepper v. Apple consumer class action over supracompetitive App Store commissions, which was brought more than a decade ago, has alread...

With additional favorable claim constructions, Ericsson inches closer to U.S. import ban on Apple gadgets

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Settlement pressure is clearly mounting on Apple in its dispute with Ericsson. Meanwhile, it looks like Apple's patent license agreement...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Epic Games' aftermarket arguments and case citations are substantially stronger than Apple's: reversal by Ninth Circuit is realistically achievable

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The Epic Games v. Apple appellate hearing in San Francisco-- with the DOJ supporting Epic's appeal --is less than four weeks away. With...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Apple's imposition of its app tax on NFT sales is abusive but consistent: NFT startups must trade outside App Store or pay Apple's commission

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Early on Friday, The Information published an article by Aidan Ryan on How Apple's App Store Politicies Squeeze NFT Startups . On Twitte...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Senator Mike Lee is the lone voice of antitrust reason: allowing cartels (through the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act) is the wrong way to tackle a market-failure problem

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Here's a perfect example of conflicting goals . There are three alternative ways to look at the Journalism Competition Preservation Act ...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Plot is thickening that Apple, Google, and possibly other gatekeepers will seek to derail, defang, or delay Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act in court

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Yesterday, Handelsblatt (Germany's leading financial newspaper) reported on something that Politico already covered on August 10 : law ...