Others have noted the relative increase in the Supreme Court’s patent law docket over the last two terms. An additional area of significant Supreme Court activity is antitrust – another facet of the legal framework that structures competition in our market economy.

In today’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse summarizes the Court’s two new grants in antitrust cases. Lyle Denniston described the same grants at SCOTUSblog yesterday.

UPDATE: Tony Mauro had this story about Leegin, the minimum retail price case, back in September. Hanno Kaiser weighed in at Antitrust Review, and Josh Wright weighed in at Truth on the Market.

UPDATE 2: And here’s a fresh analysis from Thom Lambert at Truth on the Market.