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US FTC’s Wilson warns against reviving essential facilities doctrine in antitrust cases

By Khushita Vasant
  • 25 Mar 2021 19:06
  • 25 Mar 2021 19:59
Breathing new life into the essential facilities doctrine in antitrust cases will inject significant uncertainty for companies, undermine incentives to innovate, and hurt competition, the US Federal Trade Commission’s Christine Wilson said today.
“The problem with the essential facilities doctrine is that it is static, not dynamic,” the Republican commissioner

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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