However,
resale price maintenance keeps its unlucky status as a "mortal sin" from the market integration perspective.
Resale price maintenance is frequently used in sectors for which it is legal (e.g., vehicles, drugs, books).
Resale price maintenance and the world after Leegin.
The unlawful use of
resale price maintenance schemes by non-monopoly producers does not provide the same precursors as the use of similar restraints by large-scale producers.
in the practice of
resale price maintenance." (207) As a result of
(87.) Judge Bork has argued that
resale price maintenance ought to be per se legal, see BORK, supra note 77, at 288, as has Judge Posner, see Richard A.
I think it unlikely that Dermalogica will engage in any further proscribed acts of
resale price maintenance. I think the pecuniary penalty I have imposed will be adequate to serve the specific deterrent purpose (the general deterrent purpose is not significantly furthered by grant of an injunction).
It has been estimated that the system of
Resale Price Maintenance, set up in the 1970s, costs consumers pounds 300million a year.
Consumer groups and Federal regulators have argued that setting minimum prices--a practice known as
resale price maintenance (RPM)--is anti-competitive and means consumers will pay more for goods.
A new survey reveals substantial cross-party support for protecting local pharmacies from the possible abolition of
resale price maintenance (RPM) on non-prescription medicines, as sought by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Supreme Court cases and justice department investigations and guidelines, for example, to clarify monopolization attempts by Microsoft, the software giant (resulting in a consent decree); examine price-fixing arrangements (the National Collegiate Athletic Association was found in violation); review merger guidelines (including an appendix on the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, a methodology for evaluating market concentration useful in merger evaluations by the federal government); and illustrate illegal vertical price restraints that involve
resale price maintenance strategies employed by manufacturers against retailers of their products.
The prospects for "wink and nod"
resale price maintenance are not hard to appreciate.