Tag: FTC
US: Antitrust partners join Baker Botts
Baker Botts announced on June 25 that Mark Botti and Anthony Swisher have joined the firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice as partners in the...
US: Simons announces FTC will conduct tech industry policy hearings
Joseph Simons, the new head of the Federal Trade Commission wants to review how the consumer protection and antitrust agency polices companies like major...
US: The American Medical Association wants FTC and DOJ to monitor...
With insulin prices spiking, the American Medical Association (AMA) urged the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department to monitor insulin pricing and market...
US: Northrop completes US$9b Orbital ATK acquisition
Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman received final regulatory approval Tuesday, June 5, for its acquisition of rocket maker Orbital ATK, creating a huge Northern Virginia...
US: Facebook shares user data with other tech giants
Facebook reportedly formed data-sharing partnerships with dozens of device makers, including Apple and Samsung, giving them access to information on users, as well as...
GAI Response to the United States Department of Justice(“DOJ”) Antitrust Division’s...
This comment is submitted in response to the United States Department of Justice(“DOJ”) Antitrust Division’s Public Roundtable on Anticompetitive Regulations as a part of...
AAG Makan Delrahim responds to critique on patent holdup
Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Makan Delrahim, responded in a letter dated May 18, to Rutgers University Professor Michael Carrier and former Federal Trade...
US: FTC loses Impax pay-for-delay case
A patent deal in which Endo Pharmaceuticals paid generic-drug maker Impax Laboratories to forgo launching a generic version of an opioid pain medication did...
US: New Director of the Bureau of Competition at FTC named
Bruce Hoffman has been appointed Director of the Bureau of Competition, having served as Acting Director since August 2017.
He previously worked for Shearman & Sterling...
US: Senators ask FTC to investigate Google’s Location tracking
Two US senators have asked the nation's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take another look at Google's location harvesting.
Democrat Senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward...
