Sentences with phrase «competition concerns»

Despite their potential benefits, patent pools may also raise competition concerns.

Our employment and competition teams consider the key issues identified in the advisory bulletin and suggest strategies which organisations may adopt to minimize the risk of competition concerns arising.

... provides competition authorities with a specialized yet informal venue for maintaining regular contacts and addressing practical competition concerns.

The CB and the low - cost competitors must answer very valid privacy concerns just as much as the local boards must answer valid competition concerns.

A Packaging Design Summit will also be launched, run in association with the Pentawards, a global competition concerned with packaging design.

- Produced working drawings and models for the Guggenheim Helsinki Museum Competition concerning museum construction and design, site context, and programmatic requirements.

This can free - up FCA resource for higher priority matters, whilst also solving potential competition concerns — a regulatory «win - win».

PARIS (Reuters)- French food group Danone (DANO.PA) has agreed to sell its U.S dairy business Stonyfield to Lactalis for $ 875 million, a move designed to address competition concerns stemming from its acquisition of U.S. organic food group WhiteWave.

Luc Bertrand, vice-president of National Bank of Canada, one of Maple's backers, downplayed competition concerns in a conference call with media, adding the combined resources of the venture will allow the TMX to compete on an international level and recapture lost trading volume.

After consultation with a range of market participants, including sheet and coil distribution customers, rival sheet and coil distributors and industry associations, the ACCC identified competition concerns in sheet and coil distribution in Western Australia.

«I think it will be quite a busy year on the mergers front, you have got the new media laws coming in, we do expect quite a lot of mergers to be happening, we had quite a lot in 2017 and we try to pre-assess 90 per cent of the mergers and focus our resources on the ones that cause the largest competition concerns,» Mr Sims said.

indicate it will provide clearance subject to the provision of court enforceable undertakings designed to alleviate competition concerns.

«Saputo's divestiture undertaking has remedied the ACCC's competition concerns about the Koroit plant,» ACCC chairman Rod Sims said in a statement.

Presently, the major retailers notify the ACCC of acquisitions they believe may trigger competition concerns — forcing the regulator to find out about other deals through market sources.

From the submission date, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)-- which outlined a series of competition concerns when Murray Goulburn tried to buy WCB in 2010 — has 22 days to provide the tribunal with an issues paper and 45 days to put together a report on matters requested by the tribunal.

Murray Goulburn is expected to submit its application for merger authorisation to the Australian Competition Tribunal on November 29, arguing that the public benefits from the merger outweigh competition concerns.

The ACCC considers that their earlier competition concerns regarding the merger will be addressed by those global divestments.

The ACCC will not oppose AAT's proposed acquisition of the lease to operate the automotive terminal at Port of Fremantle, subject to a s 87 Undertaking addressing the ACCC's vertical competition concerns.

The Tribunal held that the effectiveness of individual competitors is not a relevant issue because it is not related to competition concerns which led to the making of the consent agreement.

The assets are being sold by Lafarge and Holcim to allay competition concerns as the French and Swiss giants try to gain regulatory approval for their planned merger in the first half of 2015.

Intellectual property transactions and litigation can raise antitrust and competition concerns where the acquisition, sale or enforcement of intellectual property rights might affect market power or lead to a restraint of trade.

We have achieved an unparalleled record of success in International Trade Commission (ITC) matters, the outcomes of which are determined not only by patent merits but also by the ITC's statutory mandate to consider the public interest, including competition concerns.

World's largest brewer to revise terms of takeover to meet restricted competition concerns [/ a], Reuters

«We have repeatedly advised CREA's leadership that these amendments do not solve our ongoing competition concerns and I reiterated this directly to CREA as recently as last week in a letter to the president,» says Aitken.

Their respective bids — $ 67 bln for DirecTV and $ 45 bln for Time Warner Cable — raise competition concerns.

Other potential competition concerns are that a pool's members may discriminate among licensees or use the pool to share confidential business information so as to reduce competition in a downstream market.

The ACCC will not challenge Gunns» acquisition of ITC Timber after the parties cmomit to a restructure to address competition concerns.

If the Commission decides Google's proposals resolve the competition concerns, they can make the commitments legally binding for the company.

(a) Banks are still in the process of figuring out what bitcoin is and how to deal with it, since it is a disruptive technology which could arguably compete with the bank's own existing services and products (although no banking executives on my calls explicitly mentioned the competition concern).

The Commission found that the proposed acquisition would not give rise to any competition concerns on these markets.

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, has welcomed the upcoming auction of 5G, but has also flagged some competition concerns in a speech delivered at the RadComms conference today.

While acknowledging that the role of IP rights in promoting innovation and competition is unlikely to raise competition concerns «in the vast majority of cases», it expresses the view that the extent of current IP protections may go beyond what is necessary.

13 August 2008 - St George - Westpac merger approved by ACCC The ACCC will not challenge a merger between St George and Westpac (see Press Release) concluding it is unlikely to substantially lessen competition, despite raising some competition concerns in their Statement of Issues.

There's not much more Lillard can say to address the age or competition concerns.

Murdoch says no, he wanted to «lay out the issues and our analysis of the relevant plurality and competition concerns».

«Competition concerns may arise where traders seek to restrict the discounting of products by way of restrictive arrangements with suppliers.

The European Commission calls Amazon's antitrust commitments «a timely, effective and comprehensive solution to the competition concerns» raised.

Jane Edwarde and Duncan Blaikie are advising on real estate and IP / IT matters respectively, and Claire Jeffs and Kerry O'Connell on competition concerns.

This test is a strength of the UK regime as it focuses UK merger control on mergers that experience suggests are most likely to lead to competition concerns; or

The investigation was closed, without the imposition of any penalty, when the CMA accepted that its competition concerns were met by the Guild's commitments to amend certain of its rules.