Resale Price Maintenance After Leegin

Resale Price Maintenance After Leegin
Author: Gregory Gundlach
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523855612

Resale price maintenance (RPM) is a controversial pricing practice for managing retail distribution channels. In Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007), the Supreme Court abolished a nearly century-old per se rule against RPM established in Dr. Miles Medicine Co. v. John D. Park & Sons (1911). Henceforth, RPM will be judged under federal antitrust law by the rule of reason - a less restrictive standard that requires courts to weigh all the relevant circumstances of a case to assess whether a practice unreasonably restrains trade. Despite that the decision in Leegin leaves many unanswered questions, the decision has prompted an increasing number of consumer goods manufacturers to adopt RPM in the management of their retailer relationships. Recently, the widespread use of restrictive pricing practices in the retail distribution of contact lenses has drawn attention and elevated debate over the practice. Pending lawsuits in the industry have been identified as an important "test case" for antitrust's new vertical pricing regime following Leegin. Drawing upon relevant literatures from law, economics, and business, together with publically available information, important questions in the debate and related cases that share significance for scholarship and practice are elaborated upon and examined. We hope this examination reveals insights helpful to understanding the antitrust implications of contact lens manufacturers' pricing practices and for advancing academic knowledge, marketing practice, and competition policy involving RPM.

The Antitrust Paradox

The Antitrust Paradox
Author: Robert Bork
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736089712

The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.

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Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2854
Release:
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Resale Price Maintenance

Resale Price Maintenance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1936
Genre: Price maintenance
ISBN:

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1344
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

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Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2370
Release:
Genre: United States
ISBN: