It has been a while since I have done this.  I blame the World Cup.  For example, when I left the office for lunch yesterday, I expected to return in under an hour as England surely would have put 2 or 3 goals past Trinidad and Tobago by then right?  Wrong.  Thus, I was forced to take an extra long lunch break.

My life is hard.

Anyway ….

• The Washington Post has a very interesting article about Jeffery Skilling’s lawyers not being paid in full.  Basic gist is that O’Melveny & Myers was paid $40 million but billed about $65 million (i.e., 61% of the bill was paid).
• Although also not involving antitrust, the Supreme Court’s eBay decision does involve competition.  Law.com has this very interesting article about the application of the decision in a case in Texas against Microsoft and Autodesk.  Although the jury found for Z4, the plaintiff, and awarded it $133 for the defendants’ willful violation of its patents, the judge denied Z4’s request for an injunction.  The article is very good and worth reading until the end.  (I see that Patently-O has an extensive analysis the decision.)
• As I am on record opposing amendment of the antitrust laws to create special standards for different industries, you can probably guess my opinion on The Oil Industry Merger Antitrust Enforcement Act which would, among other things, amend the Clayton Act so that “the burden of proof shall be on the defendant or defendants to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the merger, acquisition, or transaction at issue will not substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly” (in the case involving the “business of exploring for, producing, refining, or otherwise processing, storing, marketing, selling, or otherwise making available petroleum, oil, or natural gas, or products derived from petroleum, oil, or natural gas”).
• Audio link of the day (ok, year, as this is the first).  It’s a Todd Terje remix.
• I see, via Patent Baristas, that the ABA IP Section will have a ”Bloggers’ Corner” event at its annual summer conference.  We here at the Antitrust Review are horribly biased about this, but we think the ABA’s Antitrust Section should do the same at its Spring Conference in 2007.  And I am sure we could also find a law firm or two that might be willing to sponsor it (props to Foley Hoag which is sponsoring the IT Bloggers Corner).

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