antitrust

An “abandoned application” refers to the abandonment of a patent or trademark application.  An application is removed from the docket of pending applications at the U.S.

• patent law

Antitrust refers to the regulation of the concentration of economic power, particularly in regard to monopolies and other anticompetitive practices. Antitrust laws exist as both federal statutes and state statutes. The three key federal statutes in Antitrust Law are;

• antitrust
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• federal law
• state law
• competition
• UNFAIR COMPETITION
• unfair price competition

The three key federal statutes in Antitrust Law are Sherman Act Section 1, Sherman Act Section 2, and the Clayton Act.

Antitrust violations occur when antitrust laws, or laws protecting trade and commerce from abusive practices such as price-fixing, restraints, price discrimination, and monopolization, are broken. The three key federal statutes in Antitrust Law are Sherman Act Section 1, Sherman Act Section 2, and 

A cartel is a group of independent corporations or other entities that join together to fix prices, rig bids, allocate markets, or conduct other similar

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, codified at 15 U.S.C. 12-27, is one of the primary pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States. This act was designed to bolster the Sherman antitrust Act and outlaws the following conduct:

Collective bargaining is the negotiation process between an employer and a union comprised of workers to create an agreement that will govern the

• collective bargaining
• collective bargaining agreement
• COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS
• labor and employment law
• LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAWS
• labor
• employment
• LABOR UNION
• labor unions

Collusion is when two or more parties secretly agree to defraud a third-party of their rights or accomplish an illegal purpose. 

Collusive bidding refers to an agreement among two or more competitors to change the bids they otherwise would have offered absent the agreement. Where collusive bidding is well established, prices can rise substantially, in some cases by as much as several hundred percent.