For Microsoft, CRA economists advised on the $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn in Europe and the US. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cleared the transaction and the EC cleared the deal subject to conditions to address potential concerns in “professional social networking” (PSN). Our analysis considered the parties’ ability and incentive to foreclose third-party suppliers of CRM solutions by restricting the availability of LinkedIn’s (sales intelligence) products, or tying/bundling them with Microsoft’s productivity assets.
Aggregate royalty for cellular SEPs in recent court decisions
This academic paper, “Aggregate Royalty for Cellular SEPs in Recent Court Decisions,” published in GRUR Patent by CRA Competition experts Nadia Soboleva and...