Robert Schwinger discusses a recent magistrate judge ruling in a dispute over actions taken by various parties in connection with a cryptocurrency "fork," which addressed the question of whether those parties' conduct constituted anticompetitive activity barred by federal antitrust law.
Robert A. Schwinger explores recent developments in this edition of his New York Law Journal Blockchain Law column.
Read the entire article, Blockchain law: Can blockchain participants act in restraint of trade?.
Robert Schwinger is a partner in the commercial litigation group at Norton Rose Fulbright US. Emily Woolbank, a commercial litigation associate, assisted in the preparation of this article.
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On 24 October 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that the European Commission’s (the EC) 2009 decision, which imposed a (then record) €1.06 billion fine on Intel, was flawed as far as it found that loyalty rebates granted by Intel had anti-competitive effects.
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