Staff in corner shops now regularly ask customers whether they want a lotto (loto in French-speaking Canada) with their shopping.All of this is manna for Canada's provincial governments, who are the monopoly owners of legal gambling outlets.
But so doctrinaire is the insistence on neoliberal "competition" that the function of the Australian Energy Regulator is to effectively pretend that there is a competitive market, and instruct the monopoly-owners to price accordingly.
A monopoly network owner that shares infrastructure with competitors has every interest in charging its rivals as much as it can.
Fortunately for everyone, including Hollywood, the Supreme Court said the monopoly power of copyright owners had to be balanced against the needs of others.
The Australians will be the former state monopoly's fifth owner since it was privatised in 1999.Valcon Acquisition, a group of six private-equity companies, triumphed at last in its three-month campaign to buy VNU, a Dutch market-research company.
Simply put, claims are the heart of a patent, and serve as the social contract between the inventor and the public as to what limited term monopoly rights the owner of the invention is permitted.
Dispatches discovered an online casino which had sublicensed the Monopoly brand from its owner, the games company Hasbro, and to which fake likes had been added on its Facebook page.
The patent gives its owner a monopoly, she pointed out: "patenting an accounting system necessary to carry on a certain type of business is tantamount to a patent on the business itself".
"Having a trademark registration gives the owner a monopoly right that could last forever if it is looked after, and that is why courts are careful to award these rights.
The Competition and Markets Authority – Britain's main competition watchdog – took the unusual step this week of warning that selling the Land Registry would give any new owner a monopoly on highly valuable information, with no incentive to allow others access to it.
The Competition & Markets Authority CMAA) said selling off the organisation that keeps the official record of commercial and residential land ownership in England and Wales would give the new owner a monopoly on commercially valuable data with no incentive to improve access to it.
