Elai Katz

October 27, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz reviews developments of note, including a ruling that patent infringement settlement agreements between a brand-name drug-maker and generic rivals were not anticompetitive without a large unjustified reverse payment, a rejection of the FTC's challenge to a proposed combination of domestic and foreign medical equipment sterilization companies because the FTC failed to show that the foreign firm was likely to enter the U.S. market absent the merger, and more.

By Elai Katz

12 minute read

October 26, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz reviews developments of note, including a ruling that patent infringement settlement agreements between a brand-name drug-maker and generic rivals were not anticompetitive without a large unjustified reverse payment, a rejection of the FTC's challenge to a proposed combination of domestic and foreign medical equipment sterilization companies because the FTC failed to show that the foreign firm was likely to enter the U.S. market absent the merger, and more.

By Elai Katz

12 minute read

December 31, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz reviews recent developments, including Seventh Circuit's reaffirmation of its ruling that a domestic corporation could not assert price-fixing damages claims on behalf of its foreign subsidiaries, along with matters involving the regulatory process through which international airline fares are filed and monitored, anticompetitive ethical rules in professional associations' codes of conduct, and more.

By Elai Katz

14 minute read

October 29, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz reviews recent decisions on use of student athletes' names and likenesses in video games and telecasts, territorial restrictions for broadcasting professional baseball and hockey games and price-fixing of polyurethane products.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

August 27, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz reviews developments of interest, including the Second Circuit's decision that an alleged breach of contracts to supply generic drug companies with an unbranded version of a drug did not state a monopolization claim under a duty to deal theory, an Eighth Circuit ruling involving an asset swap agreement between grocery wholesalers, and more.

By Elai Katz

13 minute read

April 23, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz of Cahill Gordon & Reindel reviews recent developments, including a decision that evidence did not support an inference that chocolate bar manufacturers' parallel price increases were the result of collusion; the Supreme Court's agreement to review a case interpreting the application of the state action immunity doctrine to a North Carolina dentists board, which sought to curtail services by non-dentists; and the New York Attorney General's imposition of novel remedies in a hospital merger case.

By Elai Katz

12 minute read

February 25, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Cahill Gordon & Reindel partner Elai Katz reviews developments of interest, including a decision holding the merger of online ratings platforms was an unlawful merger to monopoly after the judge accepted a limited relevant market definition, the imposition of the longest antitrust prison sentence on a former executive of a water freight carrier and the EC's acceptance of Google's proposed remedies to resolve concerns that it abused its dominant position with biased search results.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

November 22, 2013 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, discusses recent cases involving allegations that senior executives at eBay and Intuit agreed to refrain from hiring one another's employees, an alleged conspiracy to undercut rival insurance estimation software providers, the long-standing antitrust exemption for baseball, and the merger of American Airlines and US Airways.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

September 20, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, analyzes, among other rulings, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finding that ATM customers lacked standing to challenge inter-bank fees because they were indirect purchasers and did not pay the allegedly fixed fees and other antitrust developments of note.

By Elai Katz

12 minute read

November 17, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Cahill Gordon & Reindel partner Elai Katz discusses many recent developments, including the challenge to AT&T's plans to acquire T-Mobile, and the Department of Justice's settlement of charges that Bimbo Bakeries' acquisition of Sara Lee would lessen competition for the sale of sliced bread in eight geographic markets.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read