Stephen C. Wu / Wei-Han Wu
(The article reflects only the authors' opinion and does not represent the opinion of Lee and Li.)
This article discusses the cartel regulations under US and EU regulations. The purpose is to underscore the importance for Taiwanese enterprises to company with the cartel regulations of foreign countries to avoid violations.
Stephen C. Wu / Wei-Han Wu
(The article reflects only the authors' opinion and does not represent the opinion of Lee and Li.)
Case study regarding the FTC's decisions on several comparative advertisements. This article is to alert enterprises that conduct marketing activities in compliance with the fair competition requirements under the FTA.
Stephen C. Wu / Wei-Han Wu
(The article reflects only the authors' opinion and does not represent the opinion of Lee and Li.)
This article discusses the cases where enterprises were fined by the FTC for misleading promotional advertisement and delved into the FTC's guidelines on handling of promotional advertisement is also introduced.
Stephen C. Wu / Yvonne Y. Hsieh
(The article reflects only the authors' opinion and does not represent the opinion of Lee and Li.)
At its April 27, 2011 commissioners' meeting, the Fair Trade Commission ("FTC") conditionally approved the proposed combination of Want Chung Media Co., Ltd. ("Want Chung"), Anshun, Bokan (collectively "Holdco") and Holdco's subsidiaries, including CNS Network Co., Ltd ("CNS"), Global Digital Media Co. Ltd. ("GDM") and 11 cable system operators ("SOs"). The FTC imposed 11 conditions for its clearance over the transaction so as to ensure the competition status in the relevant market will not be impeded as a result of the transaction.
Stephen C. Wu / Yvonne Y. Hsieh
(The article reflects only the authors' opinion and does not represent the opinion of Lee and Li.)
At its March 31, 2010 commissioners' meeting, the Fair Trade Commission ("FTC") conditionally permitted a proposed combination for the joint operation of One-Blue, LLC ("One-Blue") by Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Cyberlink. One-Blue will act as a licensing agent for the patent pool to license essential blue-ray disk (BD) patents for the manufacturing of backward-compatible BD products. Upon the consummation of the combination, the participating parties will respectively acquire a 1/6 shareholding and then jointly operate One-Blue. This case is noteworthy because this is the first time the FTC has reviewed a case concerning a patent pool.