News | October 12, 2018
Research fellows cited in US Supreme Court
Two academic articles written by research fellows Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam) and Jan Tuinstra (University of Amsterdam) were cited in the US Supreme Court through an amicus letter signed by 17 academics. The articles were cited in the case Apple v. Pepper.
Renowned American antitrust scholars side with the plaintiffs, buyers of iPhone apps, calling upon the Court not to extend the so-called Illinois Brick-rule by qualifying a buyer of a product (apps) as an indirect purchaser (of App Store) if the price of the product is set by a third party (app developers). Doing so would facilitate antitrust violations, and be unjustified as a result of new developments in economic theory.