Antitrust & Technology for Attorneys: Dealing with a Global Anti-Competitive Environment
** Discounts apply for early registration. See information below to register in this event. ** Summary: The Antitrust Law seeks to prevent anti-competitive actions within markets to protect consumer welfare and ensure opportunities for all businesses. To achieve these objectives, it prohibits practices that restrict free competition between business entities, such as creating cartels, bans anti-competitive practices of firms that lead to their dominance in particular markets, and controls mergers and acquisitions of large companies. However, in this age of rapid innovation especially in the cyberspace economy, its essential that these practices are regulated to serve the consumers' interests and should promoting competition. Technology is making the global environment much more interconnected leading to legal antitrust issues that may not have been conceived before. Attorneys need to be in the know on an up to the minute basis in order to properly advise their clients on these issues. The Knowledge Group is producing a webcast to help attorneys deal with the growing global environment brought about by technology. Learn about new regulations and best practices on this topic. Antitrust & Technology for Attorneys: Dealing with a Global Anti-Competitive Environment LIVE Webcast is a must attend event for Attorneys who practice this type of law. The event will take place on October 15, 2009, 3:00pm to 5:00pm (ET). Register for this event: https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=gkc&formId=65332 FEATURED SPEAKER LIST: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Alden F. Abbott Deputy Director for Special Projects, Office of International Affairs Senate Judiciary Committee Seth Bloom General Counsel, Subcommittee on Antitrust American Antitrust Institute Albert A. Foer President NERA Economic Consulting Dr. Timothy Daniel Senior Vice President, (Former Assistant Director, Antitrust, FTCs Bureau of Economics) Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Leon B. Greenfield Partner, Regulatory and Government Affairs Department Talking Points Agenda: - FTC competition law enforcement will continue to focus on anticompetitive payments from drug companies that delay entry of lower cost generic drugs. - Vigorous antitrust enforcement is more than ever important in a period of economic difficulty. - Cartels -- competitors that secretly fix prices -- remain a major source of antitrust concern to antitrust enforcers worldwide. - Antitrust enforcers are concerned with maintaining strong competitive conditions in high tech sectors of the economy. - There is an active legislative and oversight agenda in Congress regarding antitrust issues. - Review of Congress role in antitrust policy in general - Discussion of Senate Antitrust Subcommittees legislative agenda (i) bill to repeal the freight railroad industrys antitrust exemption; (ii) bill to end reverse payment settlements between brand name drug makers and generic drug makers in which the brand name company settles patent litigation by paying the generic drug maker to stay off the market; (iii) bill to reverse the Leegin decision and restore the antitrust rule that manufacturers may not set minimum retail prices; (iv) NOPEC bill to make actions of members of OPEC oil cartel subject to US antitrust law when they fix prices or limit supply of crude oil affecting the US market - Discussion of Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing agenda for 2009 hearings examining Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger; resale price maintenance bill; college bowl championship series; discussion of other matters of Subcommittee oversight, including international airline alliances - Discussion of legislative and oversight activities in other parts of Congress, including House Antitrust Subcommittee - Was the Antitrust Modernization Commission right in concluding that "the new economy" requires no new antitrust approaches? The rise of systems competition: do we have the right focus? The key role of Interoperability: do we have the right theories? The challenge of globally defined markets: do we have the right institutions? The extension of private enforcement internationally: how will we deal with the added complexity? Check for Updates, Speaker Bios, Event Details etc: http://knowledgecongress.org/event_2009_Antitrust.html Registration Information: ** Discounts apply for early registration. See information below to register in this event. ** Antitrust & Technology for Attorneys: Dealing with a Global Anti-Competitive Environment Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009 Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm (ET) Registration Link (click link below or copy and paste into your browser): https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=gkc&formId=65332 For Group registrations please click http://www.knowledgecongress.org/group_registration.htm or call 1.800.578.4370 for more info. 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