Published: November 2010
Last Updated: November 2018

Course Handbook from the program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2017, held November, 2017.

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2018

Antitrust Issues with Joint Ventures [01:07:01] This One-Hour Briefing will analyze the potential antitrust ramifications of joint ventures and other collaborations between competitors and how to balance the pro-competitive efficiencies against the anti-competitive effects of a proposed JV.   Howard M. Ullman of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP discusses:  Recent cases and agency guidance regarding “naked” transactions;  ...

Recorded on: Feb. 28, 2018

Taken from the One- Hour Audio-only Briefing Recorded February 2018 in New York M&A in the Age of Trump: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [01:01:56] President Trump ran on a pro-business platform.  A year into his presidency, it seems fitting to ask what impact the eponymous author of “Trump: The Art of the Deal” is having on M&A deal activity.   Join leading M&A practitioners and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ...

Recorded on: Mar. 1, 2018

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub and I am a program attorney with PLI, a nonprofit learning organization. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, antitrust trust issues with joint ventures. Before I begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to material for this briefing via the Course ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2018

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub, and I'm a Program Attorney with PLI, a nonprofit learning organization. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing-- M&A in the age of Trump-- the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to material for ...

From the program: Developments in Antitrust Law & Regulation 2018

Released on: Apr. 20, 2018

This year’s program will examine recent developments in several key areas of antitrust reflected in recent decisions as well as vigorous enforcement in the US and around the world.  Panels or nationally known practitioners and senior government enforcement officials will report on and explore developments in competitor relationships, including cartels and other per se antitrust violations as well as the antitrust implications of joint ventures ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

YVONNE S. QUINN: Good morning. Welcome back. Now, it's always fun with Dan Swanson and his great presentation on section two. I didn't used to follow him though, I think. So now I've got a hard act to follow, because he's good. But you'll hear some themes, like market definition and things that you've learned from him that I'll touch on quickly. But I'm really pleased. I'm Yvonne Quinn. I was introduced earlier. And I'm really pleased to be here ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

SAUL P. MORGENSTERN: Welcome back. As I mentioned this morning, and as Krista mentioned this morning, I'm Saul Morgenstern. I'm co-chair of the program with Yvonne and Harvey. And it's my turn talk to you directly today about something of substance as opposed to about the program-- relationships among competitors, lawful co-operations, and unreasonable restraints, and cartels. It's quite a mouthful. And we will cover the panoply of relationships ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

SAUL MORGENSTERN: Welcome back. It is my pleasure-- and no, you are not going to have to listen to me for another hour and a half. It is my pleasure to introduce, actually my partner, Laura Shores, also at Arnold and Porter. Laura is a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience in complex civil and criminal matters heavily in the antitrust space and particularly in the representation of companies and individuals in antitrust matters. Laura's ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

HEATHER S. TEWKSBURY: Great. Well, thank you all. We're going to start with our next panel. My name is Heather Tewskbury. I'm from the law firm of WilmerHale. And I have the pleasure of, yet again, getting to moderate this panel of incredible panelists. The title of our panel is "Enforcement Issues and Opportunities for Antitrust Practitioners." And we have the heads of several enforcement agencies here to speak with you all today. First, I'd like ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

DANIEL G. SWANSON: All right, thank you very much, Saul and Yvonne and Harvey. Thanks for having me here. Appreciate the kind words. So it is, Saul indicated the topic to lead off the day is Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which deals with monopolies. I've been asked to make a comprehensive presentation, so I thought at least time permitting, I would start at the beginning with the first recorded monopoly in human history. I'm sure someone in the audience ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Welcome back, the hardy souls coming back for the second day of the Antitrust Institute. Anybody got any questions from yesterday that are lingering? Well, this is a very special morning. We have one of the-- Robert Taylor has been doing this for as long as I have or longer, probably. We started out in San Francisco. Believe it or not, when antitrust was king, we had an antitrust conference both in San Francisco and New York. It ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

HARVEY: Well thank you for-- thank you for sticking around for the last session on corporate compliance and Moore Madison, Ted Banks, who is our guru on ethics number two. He's been doing this for many number of years, says great things. He has great graphics. He does great graphics, good cartoons, and he's a wonderful guy. And he's from Chicago, and he's got his-- part of his own firm Sharf Banks and Marmor, Marmor. And he's an adjunct professor ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

HARVEY I. SAFERSTEIN: Well, welcome to the Robinson-Patman segment of the program. Just think, as the other Harvey-- this is called two Harvey show. As the other Harvey will say many times to me, these used to be 2 and 1/2 hours. And in the old days, Robinson-Patman was such a predominant interest for antitrust lawyers that we had one of the largest segments in the PLI antitrust program. But Robinson-Patman-- there's the other Harvey. OK. Now, we ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

CRAIG G. FALLS: So when you think about antitrust cases, the first thing that usually comes to mind are interactions between competitors. We all sort of think of the paradigmatic-type cases of price fixing or market allocation, and we think about interactions between competitors. It's not often that we think of antitrust in terms of interactions with your customers or with your suppliers or your distributors. But in fact, over the last decade or so, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2018

LISL J. DUNLOP: This is totally off topic. But if you're an American lawyer-- HARVEY I. SAFERSTEIN: We like to hear your accent, though. [LAUGHS] LISL J. DUNLOP: If you're an American lawyer and you give advice to a European client, that advice arguably is not protected by attorney-client privilege under European privilege rules, under [INAUDIBLE], because the attorney, the outside attorney, is not an EU attorney. HARVEY I. SAFERSTEIN: OK. All ...

From the program: Class Action Litigation 2018

Released on: Jun. 28, 2018

Class action lawsuits remain an integral and exciting part of high stakes litigation. The courts, including the Supreme Court, have taken notice. You will gain the tools and strategies you need to effectively litigate, mediate or settle these complex cases. Our outstanding faculty of plaintiffs’ and defense counsel, academics and a retired U.S. Magistrate Judge will bring you up-to-date on important developments in class action litigation. You ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2018

Taken from the Web Program Recorded June, 2018 in New York U.S. v. AT&T-Time Warner: Implications for Future Antitrust Merger Enforcement [01:04:27] In U.S. v. AT&T-Time Warner, Judge Leon held that the DOJ had not met its burden to prove that the merger of AT&T and Time Warner would substantially lessen competition. The highly-anticipated decision, which paved the way for AT&T and Time Warner to close their $85.4 billion ...

Recorded on: Jul. 2, 2018

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI, a nonprofit learning organization. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, US versus AT&T Time Warner, Implications for Future Antitrust Merger Enforcement. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have ...

Course Handbook from the program Corporate Political Activities 2018: Complying with Campaign Finance, Lobbying and Ethics Laws, held September 2018.

Published: October 2018

From the program: Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2018

Recorded on: Oct. 30, 2018

Taken from the Web Program Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2018 Recorded October, 2018 in New York [00:59:26] The continuing evolution of Actavis in the lower courts, including recent 3rd Circuit decisions in Lipitor and Wellbutrin Recent developments at FTC and DOJ, including authorized generics and a new focus on misuse of process within the PTO or FDA Implications for settling Hatch-Waxman litigation Stephen ...

Recorded on: Oct. 30, 2018

MODERATOR: Our next speaker this afternoon is Steve Elliott. He's special counsel at Sullivan Cromwell's Intellectual Property and Technology Group and focuses on patents and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Elliott represents both plaintiffs and defendants in patent litigation, covering a wide range of technologies including pharmaceuticals, optics, electronics, software, medical devices, biotechnology, and financial services. He has represented ...

From the program: Antitrust Counseling & Compliance 2018

Released on: Nov. 7, 2018

Lawyers counseling businesses should have a solid foundation in the principles of antitrust law and an understanding of the latest antitrust developments in order to advise their clients effectively. The consequences of running afoul of antitrust rules can be costly: federal and state government enforcement actions, jail time for executives, treble damages litigation, class actions, and adverse publicity are all risks when companies step over the ...