by Kevin Coates | Feb 21, 2012 | Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets, Reviews
Riccardo Sciaudone of Grimaldi e Associati has reviewed my book in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. He concludes: Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets is a very valuable work and will become a leading text in the field. Although intended to be, in the author’s view, mainly a reference text for practitioners, it will certainly reach a much wider audience. Its reference to historical developments, discussion of doctrinal bases of laws and judgments and the constant comparative approach, in addition to a thorough and lucid analysis of a considerable amount of case-law and decisions both in the EU and in the USA, it will also be of particular interest for academics, antitrust enforcers, regulators and policy makers. International Journal of Law and Information Technology Vol. 20 No....
by Kevin Coates | Feb 20, 2012 | Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets, Featured, Reviews
Concurrences has published a great review of my book in the latest edition of their Concurrences journal. Written by Thomas Vinje of Clifford Chance, the review concludes: One consistent and welcome aspect of this book is its focus on economics and its application in contemporary competition cases related to technology. The analysis is not stuck in the past, but focuses on up-to-date economic thinking and anticipates how that thinking might be applied going forward. Apart from its substantive depth, this book benefits from a fluent writing style: for a book on the law, it’s a real page-turner. For someone interested in the topic of technology markets and competition law, this book is no remedy for sleeplessness. It races through the key topics in a rather exciting way, without sacrificing substance. Not an easy...
by Kevin Coates | Dec 22, 2011 | Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets, Reviews
Another endorsement for the competition law and technology book, this one from a highly respected private practitioner based in London and Brussels: This is a thorough and thoughtful review by someone who is extremely well informed and an excellent exposition and analysis of the issues and challenges facing the IT sector. I will have this book on my desk at all times, and it is a “must have” for all ICT lawyers. Maurits Dolmans, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 26, 2011 | Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets, Reviews
Dr Chris Marsden has provided a great endorsement of my book: Kevin Coates has set a new standard for competition law texts with this excellent contribution, which should be read by all US and European competition, telecoms and Internet lawyers and economists. The insightful commentary is authoritative and decisive on current controversies, and the breadth of subject matter sets this apart: from Google mergers and privacy issues, to interconnection and network neutrality, to exhaustive examination of the Microsoft cases set against Intel, to 3G standards and FRAND, to software, interoperability and copyright. The most advanced competition cases are almost invariably in technology markets, and this is an indispensable guide, with an excellent blog http://technologyandregulation.com/ covering updates. Dr Chris Marsden is Director of EXCCEL (Essex Centre for Comparative and European Law) and Senior Lecturer at Essex University School of Law Chris is author of numerous books and articles on law and technology issues, including “Net neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution” (2010, Bloomsbury), “Internet Co-regulation: European Law, Regulatory Governance and Legitimacy in Cyberspace” (2011, Cambridge), and the forthcoming “Regulating Code” (2012, MIT Press with Dr Ian...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 26, 2011 | Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets, Reviews
Professor Eleanor Fox of NYU has provided an endorsement of my book. The endorsement will filter through to the online bookshops in time: This is an excellent treatise on EU and US competition law, intellectual property law, and regulation as applied to technology, information, communication networks and media. Through the technology lens, the book engages with the cutting edge of the law and thus is able to explain the applicable legal principles, and the critical US/EU divergences, clearly and insightfully. The book promises to be invaluable to practitioners, enforcers and students alike. Professor Eleanor M. Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 26, 2011 | Antitrust, Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets, Featured, Telecoms
A margin squeeze occurs if the difference between the retail prices charged by a dominant company and the wholesale prices it charges its competitors for comparable products is negative, or insufficient to cover the costs to the dominant company of providing its own retail products on the downstream market. These issues are discussed in Chapter Four of Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets. Since the book went to press, the Court of Justice has given a preliminary ruling in the TeliaSonera case (Case C-52/09, Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 February 2011, Konkurrensverket v TeliaSonera Sverige AB, ECR reports 2011 Page 00000), and the European Commission has issued a prohibition decision against Telekomunikacja Polska, the Polish telecoms operator, fining it € 127 million for a margin squeeze. (Press release here.) Case C-52/09 TeliaSonera TeliaSonera is the Swedish fixed telephone network operator, owning the local telecoms infrastructure – the local loop. TeliaSonera offered its retail competitors unbundled access to the local loop in line with its obligations under Regulation (EC) No 2887/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on unbundled access to the local loop (OJ 2000 L 336, p. 4). It also offered an ADSL product intended for wholesale users, enabling those operators to supply retail broadband services to end users, but it did so voluntarily, without regulatory obligation. At the same time, TeliaSonera offered retail broadband connection services directly to end users, in competition with the companies to whom it supplied wholesale services. Further to national court proceedings alleging a margin squeeze, the court referred the following questions to...