In this memo, Matthew Bennett discusses the recent interest by competition authorities in vertical communications between manufacturers and retailers, and explains the dangers of conflating Recommended Retail Prices, which are relatively common and pro-competitive, with Retail Price Maintenance, which is treated as a hard-core competition law infringement in Europe.
IP Literature Watch: May 2023
In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include a paper providing an overview of the proposed alternative dispute settlement frameworks under the Data Act and...