DOJ’s AT&T appeal may be undercut by a trial concession

The government’s chances of successfully appealing the AT&T/Time Warner ruling are complicated by an apparent concession on efficiencies during the trial. William S Comanor – previously special economic assistant to the assistant attorney general for antitrust and director of the Federal Trade Commission’s bureau of economics – and Donald I Baker – former head of the DOJ’s antitrust division – explain.

• Google and the transatlantic antitrust abyss
• Out of Sync?: DOJ’s Policy Reversal Towards SEPs Lacks Legal Support

Preface

• Introduction
• FTC v Sysco/US Foods

Q&A with Noah Brumfield

White & Case partner Noah Brumfield will speak on the panel “Emerging antitrust issues in high tech” at GCR Live IP & Antitrust in California tomorrow. Here, he previews his thoughts on the Department of Justice’s “drastic and confusing shift” in views on patents and the split between European and US intellectual property enforcement.

• Q&A with Jay Jurata
• Exit interview with FTC commissioner Terrell McSweeny
• Q&A with Baker Botts partner William Lavery
• Q&A with Mike Knight

Litigators of the Week: Joe Presta and Robert Rowan

It is hard out there for a claim under section 2 of the Sherman Act. Even the Department of Justice’s antitrust division has not tried to bring more than a handful of monopolisation charges in recent years. With all the precedent about antitrust law not protecting competitors, how do the rivals of the defendant win a $315 million jury verdict?

• Litigators of the Week: Counsel to the AndroGel defendants
• Litigators of the Week: Steven Bizar, Joseph Callow and Jay Levine

Hot Docs – Hovenkamp, hospital-home bias and a healthy dose of judicial review

While the recent heatwave may have you inside by the air-conditioning all day, we have collected the hottest docs in antitrust to keep you entertained.

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