Antitrust

Past 12 Months

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Yvonne comes to us from Sullivan & Cromwell, as you heard this morning. She has a broad portfolio in this arena, as well. She's a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar, and she has served as Chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar. And she's been, again, a leading antitrust practitioner in a number of guides to the legal profession, which are ...

From the program: Antitrust Institute 2013: Developments & Hot Topics

Released on: May. 21, 2013

From mergers and acquisitions to enforcement priorities, resale price maintenance to international competition, you can be certain to hear about all of the developments in antitrust law at this program led by top experts in the field.  Hear from leading antitrust practitioners, senior government officials, and state regulators about how to manage all of the challenges new developments might throw your way.  Whether you are a seasoned antitrust ...

Course Handbook from the program Antitrust Counseling & Compliance 2012, held November, 2012.

Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2012

Taken from the briefing Antitrust Enforcement in the Health Care Industry: Current FTC and DOJ Activities recorded June 2012. With health care costs seemingly spiraling out of control, federal antitrust regulators have turned a watchful eye to the health care industry.  The FTC and DOJ have made it clear that they will aggressively challenge both new transactions and established practices they believe threaten competition.  ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Hot Topics in Mergers & Acquisitions 2012 Recorded September, 2012 in New York Antitrust Issues for the M&A Lawyer [00:00:01] Understanding the current policy regime Industries under the spotlight Practical guidance on contract drafting The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: In the Matter of ProMedica Health System, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Bob. Lots of great practical tips about the licensing in Europe. So one of last topics that Bob mentioned was competition law. That's the European term for antitrust law. So that's actually a perfect segue into our next segment. And Jose Esteves, to my right, is going to be speaking to us on antitrust law. Jose is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom-- and my old colleague-- in its New York office, where he focuses ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2012 Recorded December, 2012 in San Francisco Antitrust Issues in Licensing [01:04:03] Applicable antitrust standard: Per se violations versus rule of reason Distinguishing between horizontal and vertical licenses Particular restrictions in IP licenses Differences between the application of U.S. and EU antitrust law to IP licenses The purchase price ...

Published: August 2012

Released on: Jul. 11, 2012

Taken from the briefing Buying Patents by the Pound: Today's Patent-Acquisition Boom and Tomorrow's Antitrust Consequences recorded June, 2012. The market for patents is hotter than it has ever been, particularly in technology fields such as cellular telephony and internet searching.  Recently Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Motorola and other major companies have been involved in multi-billion dollar patent portfolio transactions.  ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

SAUL MORGENSTERN: I assume this is working and people can hear. We actually are going to bounce back and forth a little bit more than those bright lines might otherwise suggest between Jennifer and me. And so rather than get up and use the podium, because we'd be popping back up and down too much, I think we'll probably just stay in place and I'll try very hard to sit still while talking, which I find very difficult as most of you who've ever done ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE S. QUINN: All right. Welcome back from the afternoon break. You've done a great job. You're heading into the home stretch here. Or maybe you've rounded third. I don't know. I'm bad at sports analogies. But as we try to do throughout this program, we like to come up with true experts, not just antitrust lawyers, but true antitrust lawyers who are expert in things to come in and talk to you. And we've done it again for this last session, which ...

Course Handbook from the program Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2013, held May, 2013.

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE: OK. Good morning. I like to see all the early risers here. Ready to go. Congratulations. And you're in for a treat this morning, because our first session we've named Current Legal Problems at the Interface of IP Law and Competition Law. We've had some bits of this around, but this is a new session for us today. And so I'm very excited about it, and hope you are as well. And I'm also excited to have such truly qualified speakers for this ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Well, welcome back everybody. I hope you had a good lunch. You're entering the final phase of the Practising Law Institute Antitrust Institute. This afternoon, we're going to deal with the Robinson-Patman Act. And then after that, Ted Banks from Chicago is going to give you some CLE on ethics and compliance in the antitrust world, which is not only an ethics credit but an important topic in and of itself. And Ted is a spectacular ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Well, I'm very pleased to introduce Holly House, who is going to be talking about vertical restraints today. She's an antitrust and competition lawyer in the litigation department of Paul Hastings. She again, has accolades that are as long as your arm, so I won't bother introducing that. But I do want to emphasize that she and I were colleagues in at least one law firm in San Francisco. And that she is the outgoing, or not outgoing, ...

Published: April 2009

From the program: IP Monetization 2013: Maximize the Value of Your IP Assets

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

Taken from the Web Program IP Monetization 2013: Maximize the Value of Your IP Assets recorded April, 2013 in San Francisco.Lecture Topics  [01:02:06]Patent Monetization: An Empirical/Academic Perspective, and Antitrust Considerations in IP Monetization Transactions  [01:02:06] A review and discussion of certain empirical/academic studies relating to patent monetization, including the study mandated by Congress in the American Invents ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Well, it gives me a good deal of pleasure to introduce to you Dan Swanson, who's a partner in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, with offices in Los Angeles and Brussels as well. He's a member of both the California and Brussels bar. He received his law degree magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School and is also a doctorate in economics where he got his doctorate in economics at Harvard as well. He's co-chaired Gibson Dunn's antitrust ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE S. QUINN: Well, and we're going to keep right on moving-- thank you guys-- to our next speaker and topic, which is basically, international antitrust law, or what you need to know about international antitrust law. And I'm very pleased to introduce Jan McDavid who, somehow, we've both been doing this for 100 years, and we had never gotten to work together. And earlier this year, I had the pleasure of, with I think unexpected speed, getting ...

Released on: Apr. 10, 2013

Taken from the briefing What Tactics are "Fair" When FRAND is in Dispute? FRAND Commitments and the Disabilities They Create recorded March, 2013. The interplay between patents and standards is not exactly new, but the magnitude and intensity of the contest between patent owners and their potential licensees has become highly charged and has made harmonization difficult. This program will explore the origins of the problem and the need for ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Final panel. For our final panel, we're going to hear from Robbie Robertson and Nate Eimer. And I happen to know Robbie personally, because he was the FTC's principle litigation lawyer for a number of years while I was there. He litigated in one, the CCC Mitchell case, which has just been discussed, Polypore case, which has not been discussed, Chicago Bridge, which has not been discussed. He graduated from VMI and the University ...