Competition Policy International
October 20, 2015
Economic Insights

William R Schubert (Heidelberg Center para America Latina))
The risk that competition law violations may be authorized under the guise of enforceable arbitration awards is real, and it is a major policy problem. It is quite easy, for example, to use the international arbitration framework to enforce agreements that authorize anticompetitive activity among competitors in jurisdictions unrelated to the arbitral award. 
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Recently, both the Japanese Fair Trade Commission and the Canadian Competition Bureau have issued draft antitrust guidelines for intellectual property that include first-time guidance on how each jurisdiction will evaluate whether a SEP owner violates the antitrust laws by seeking an injunction against a firm implementing the standard.
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