AAI Files Amicus Brief Urging Reversal on Market Definition and Daubert
3-16-10
AAI filed an amicus brief in a monopolization case in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that the lower court's analysis of the relevant market was flawed because it failed to consider direct evidence of anticompetitive effects.
AAI Vice President to Discuss Competition In Seed Industry at DOJ/USDA Workshop
3-11-10
AAI Vice President and Senior Fellow Diana Moss will be a panelist at the Department of Justice/U.S. Department of Agriculture first joint workshop on competition in agriculture on Friday in Ankeny, Iowa.
Former AAI Research Fellow "BK" Lee of Korea Fair Trade Commission Joins Advisory Board
3-10-10
Byung Geon ("BK") Lee is Deputy Director, Special-type Commerce Division, of the Korea Fair Trade Commission.
Lande and Davis Post Comparative Deterrence from Private Enforcement and Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Antitrust Laws
3-9-10
This article, now available on SSRN, shows that private enforcement of the U. S. antitrust laws-which usually is derided as essentially worthless-probably serves as a more important deterrent of anticompetitive behavior than the most esteemed antitrust program in the world, criminal enforcement by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
American Antitrust Institute President Calls for New Federal Law to Save American Merchants and Consumers from Visa and Mastercard's Excessive Credit Card Fees
3-4-10
AAI President Albert Foer says that the MasterCard and Visa payment markets in the U.S. are so broken that only a major change can restore system balance and provide necessary protection to American merchants and consumers. Foer estimates that his proposed federal regulation solution would transfer tens of billions of dollars from big banks and credit card companies back to merchants and consumers each year, resulting in a huge stimulus for the economy.
Lande Analyzes Intel in February Issue of The CPI Antitrust Journal
3-3-10
AAI Director Robert L. Lande published an analysis of the "pure" Section 5 allegations in the recent FTC complaint against Intel in the February 2010 issue of The CPI Antitrust Journal.
IBM Responds to Professor Chin's White Paper on the DOJ Investigation of IBM, and Professor Chin Replies
2-24-10
In November 2009, AAI Advisory Board Member Andrew Chin wrote Refusals to License and Installed-Base Opportunism in the Mainframe Computer Industry: The Investigation of IBM. IBM has responded with a memorandum.
John Kwoka, an AAI Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics at Northeastern, has proposed a treatment of potential competition to the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines Workshop
2-10-10
In these public comments supplementing his January 26 testimony, Kwoka outlines why and how potential competition can be re-introduced into the Guidelines.
AAI Files Amicus Brief Urging the Federal Circuit to Apply Presumption of Unreasonableness to Restrictions on Separate Licensing by Participants in a Patent Pool
1-27-10
AAI filed an amicus brief in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on January 26, 2010 urging the court to treat agreements by potential competitors in a patent pool not to license their patents outside the pool as "inherently suspect" and therefore grounds for patent misuse. The case is Princo Corp. v. International Trade Commission and is being reheard by the full Court en banc.
AAI Writes to AAG Varney About Election Systems and Electronic Voting Equipment
1-13-10
AAI wrote to the Antitrust Division encouraging vigilance in preventing a loss of competition in the election systems market.