July 2, 2013
A path-breaking conference on merger retrospectives brought together scholars, antitrust lawyers and competition enforcement officials from around the world to George Washington Law School last week, in an event convened by former FTC Chairman William Kovacic, to study the latest thinking and research on the actual empirical consequences of mergers.
July 2, 2013
Though she is not well-known in the antitrust bar, Terrell McSweeny, President Obama’s nominee to fill the vacant seat on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, wins plenty of praise for her...
July 2, 2013
As insiders who follow the FTC closely were eagerly awaiting Chairwoman Edith Ramirez’s selections to top posts at the agency, one veteran antitrust lawyer mused about how highly coveted these jobs...
July 2, 2013
In her first extended remarks about “patent assertion entities” – derisively referred to as patent trolls – FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez recently signaled that while she will not be reluctant to be...
July 2, 2013
When the Supreme Court recently ruled that pay-for-delay agreements between brand and generic drug companies are subject to antitrust scrutiny, officials at the Federal Trade Commission had every...
July 2, 2013
In a joint letter signed by 40 attorneys general, the state officials are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and take action against what they called the “massive problem” of...
July 2, 2013
Nature abhors a vacuum. The Federal Trade Commission has for years refused to define or provide a structure for the antitrust side of Section 5 of the FTC Act of 1914, which broadly prohibits...
In this Issue: