government to sports wash its human rights record. that interestingly is not what doj would probe. no. doj would be looking at the antitrust implications. in this case there is also that public relations side and we know covering politics for so long you have senator widen, who has been on this for a year. i interviewed him a year ago about this. he has been concerned and critical of liv golf. i imagine others would come in as well. the issue of human rights abuses and as senator wyden said last week, you re allowing the saudis to take over real estate. not buying the golf courses but will have business going on on american property that is part of it, too. what it means for the golf fan,
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Rarely must patent infringers demand their right to pay
royalties. But several multinational manufacturers have gone to
court to insist that they – and not other participants in the
supply chain – make payment of any patent royalties. From a
contractual perspective, judicial analysis of such claims has
focused on the non-discrimination prong of the fair, reasonable,
and non-discriminatory ( FRAND ) patent licensing
commitment. In other words, some manufacturers have argued, and
some courts and administrative agencies have agreed, that a
patentee s refusal to provide FRAND licenses at all levels of
now we re learning the payment is a lot more than originally reported. according to a source with knowledge of the matter, at&t paid a total of $600,000. that s $50,000 a month for 12 months over the course of 2017. this deal started right after inauguration day. as at&t, like a lot of other companies, was trying to figure out what the trump administration would do with regards to net neutrality regulations, the taenat&t/time warner deal and other big business. this is a crucial piece of this. this is a deal in the works for more than 18 months. at&t has been trying to buy cnn s parent company time warner. as soon as trump came into office, there was concern the trump justice department might try to squash the deal somehow as a form of punishment against this network. regulators denied that. they said they were worried about the antitrust implications. they essentially sued to block the deal last november, saying the deal would be anti-competitive. now there is a judge in d.c. about to
stuart varney he didn t see any antiissues. a good-high quality niche retailer with the very broad brush approach of marketing everything that amazon has done so well but i surely don t see any antitrust implications in that. sounds like a green light to me. we are back with dan hanger, bill mcgurn and james freeman. james, sill connecticut valley did not receive the trump administration with open arms. it is nice to see a change in tone where businesses kind of look at generally as a helpful productive thing instead shock. needs to be controlled and really diminished so i think in any administration there s really no antitrust case here because although whole foods takes a lot of your paycheck when you shop there, it doesn t