June 30, 2015
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Today's top headlines from around the world. 
Sysco is scrapping its proposed $3.5 billion buyout of US Foods after a Federal Trade Commission legal victory that temporarily blocked the takeover.
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Economic Insights
Entering the Innovation Twilight Zone: How Patent and Antitrust Law Must Work Together
Jeffrey I. D. Lewis (Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP) & Maggie Wittlin (Columbia University)
Patent law and antitrust law have traded ascendancy over the last century, as courts and other institutions have tended to favor one at the expense of the other.
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Mergers and Acquisitions

FedEx seeks EU approval for US$4.9 billion bid for TNT Express 

From The Archives
Logan Breed & Wesley Carson
During the Obama Administration, the U.S. competition authorities have made food and agriculture a priority for antitrust enforcement. These efforts, undertaken by both the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, have concentrated primarily on preventing anticompetitive harm to buyers and sellers in food industries through merger enforcement mechanisms.
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