Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: ABA Section of Antitrust Law to hold Fall Forum on November 14, (Oct 14, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:University of California
The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law will hold its one-day 2013 Fall Forum on November 14, 2013 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Speakers will include Deborah L. Feinstein, Director of the FTC Bureau of Competition, and Renata B. Hesse, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.
The Forum will address significant case law developments from the past year, including the Supreme Court’s decisions in FTC v. Actavis, Inc., on reverse payment pharmaceutical patent settlements, and FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., on the scope of the state action doctrine; the FTC’s case against The North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners; and the Department of Justice’s case against Apple and e-book publishers. The event will also survey hot topics in antitrust law, including the possible application of antitrust law to new intellectual property business models such as patent assertion entities, the future role of market definition in merger and conduct cases, and international antitrust capacity-building.
Jonathan I. Gleklen and Christopher B. Hockett will welcome attendees to the Forum. The conference will proceed with panel discussion on a range of topics, including New Leadership at DOJ and the FTC; Reverse Payments After Actavis; Lessons from Apple/EBooks; Antitrust Implications of New IP Business Models; International Antitrust Capacity-Building: Is it Working? Is it Good for Businesses and Consumers?”; “The Future of Market Definition in Antitrust Cases”; and “State Action on the Rocks?”
Panelists will include Sharis A. Pozen; FTC Bureau of Competition Director Deborah L. Feinstein; Deputy Assistant Attorney General Renata B. Hesse from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division; Willard K. Tom; Diane E. Bieri; Richard M. Brunell; Alpa D. Davis of the FTC Bureau of Competition’s Health Care Services and Products Division; Eric Grannon; Andrea Agathoklis Murino; Jonathan B. Baker; Kathryn M. Fenton; Joshua H. Soven; Paul L. Yde; Thomas P. Brown; Anne Layne-Farrar; Erica Mintzer, Senior Counsel for Competition and Technology at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division; Joanna Tsai, Economic Advisor to FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright; Mallun Yen; Rachel C. Brandenburger; Deputy Assistant Attorney General Leslie C. Overton from the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division; Yusuke Sakurai, Deputy Director of the Japan Fair Trade Commission’s International Affairs Division; Ronald A. Stern; FTC Office of International Affairs Director Randolph W. Tritell; Jonathan I. Gleklen; Mary T. Coleman; Louis Kaplow of Harvard Law School; Carl Shapiro of the University of California at Berkeley; Gregory J. Werden, Senior Economic Counsel at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division; Jamillia P. Ferris; Jack R. Bierig; California Senior Assistant Attorney General Kathleen W. Foote; Sara Y. Razi, Deputy Assistant Director of the FTC Bureau of Competition’s Mergers IV Division; and Lee K. Van Voorhis.
Additional information may be obtained from the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654-7598; by e-mail: at-registrar@americanbar.org; or online here.
News: Conferences Antitrust