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Statement of Purpose

This website is designed, among other purposes, to solve three problems:

  • the alienation of antitrust academics from practitioners.
  • the alienation of law, economics, and public policy from each another.
  • and the difficulty that everyone has in keeping up with recent developments.

To do this, we bring legal issues together with relevant economic research using the web hypertext format.

The project links four type of information: antitrust case documents (complaints, opinions, and expert testimony); enforcement guidelines and speeches; economic bibliographies; and current antitrust issues in the news. By linking the information together in a cohesive way, it is possible to expose lawyers to relevant economic research; expose economists to the legal issues that arise in antitrust cases; teach students about antitrust; and ultimately, to inform public policy.

Antitrust Analysis

Keeping the U.S economy and its markets fair and competitive is a long term and complex task. Theory and practice continually evolve and change. This powerful and concise Web compendium is organized the subject into three major groupings: Mergers, Price Fixing, and Vertical Restraints. Within each of these major groups are sections on Economics, Cases, Law & Policy, and Research Topics. Each section is further divided into subcategories such as economic research, law and policy, case studies, and news. This arrangement allows you to dig deep into a subject with relative ease. Clicking on a case study in Mergers, for example, reveals links to related Justice Department complaints, expert-witness testimony, court decisions, and appeals documents.

The documents are richly interlinked, exploiting fully the advantages of hypertext.

This Antitrust Law and Policy site strives to bridge the gaps between law and economics and between academics and practitioners.

About the Intellectual Property Law Platform

Intellectual Property Law Insigh and Analysis

Users look to Lawi to provide them with the latest news, information, and analysis on intellectual property law including trademarks, patents, and copyrights, from traditional intellectual property legal issues like fair use and derivative works to the evolving world of Internet and e-commerce law.

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Lawi brings you comprehensive and clear explanations of the tax treatment of major intellectual property transactions and decisions so that you can alert your clients to potential benefits and liabilities. Rely on Lawi’s reporters and authors to clearly explain technical tax considerations and their relation to the complexities of intellectual property transactions.

Law decisions, expert guidance, time-saving practice tools, and relevant laws and regulations

The Encyclopedia of Law’s Intellectual Property Law Platform is a comprehensive legal research resource center for IP practitioners. This IP platform offers —on one easily searchable platform— a collection of full-text IP law decisions, expert guidance, time-saving practice tools, and relevant laws and regulations. The Intellectual Property Law Platform tries to include the latest industry developments, including headnoted case law and commentary.

Case Library

The user may access full-text decisions of the most significant patent, trademark, and copyright law cases with a fully headnoted online library of every significant IP case. Cases are searchable by citation, keyword, or by related headnotes. The user will be able to search critical decisions from federal and state courts and federal agency tribunals.

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