Corporate & Securities Law

Antitrust News And Notes

By David Fischer

• Bloomberg (via Sf. Chron) reports that at least five states (CA, NY, FL, OR and WA) are involved in the review of the NBC-Comcast merger.
• The court dismissed the last two claims brought by Novell against Microsoft.
• The NY Times reports that John Doerr left Amazon’s board due to an FTC inquiry (or investigation).  Mr. Doeer is also on Google’s board.
• The Eastern District of Pennsylvania district court recently denied the defendants’ motions to dismiss in the Provigil (Cephalon) reverse payment antitrust litigation.
• The Southern District of Ohio district court recently dismissed the reverse payment antitrust case in the Plavix (Sanofi/BMS) litigation.

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Full post as published by Antitrust Review on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).