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.
AAI, Consumer Groups Encourage Congress to Ban Patent Settlements and Restore Competition in Market for Generic Drugs
1-11-10
AAI, along with leading consumer groups, sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid today urging Congress to include a ban on exclusion payments in pharmaceutical patent settlements in the final health reform legislation that both the House and Senate will consider soon. The letter was signed by AAI President Bert Foer and drafted in conjunction with Advisory Board Member David Balto.
Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger: Why the U.K. Decision to Permit the Merger Has No Bearing on the Pending U.S. Case
1-8-10
An update to the AAI White Paper Urging Opposition to the Proposed Merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation
AAI Working Paper No. 10-01: Financial Reform and the Big 4 Audit Firms
1-4-10
In light of the financial crisis, this working paper examines implications of a too highly concentrated global audit industry, considering possibilities of deconcentrating reforms.
Antitrust-Related Books: One Reader's Year, by Bert Foer
12-31-09
AAI's president remembers 2009 as a year of unusual outreach to the public.
Antitrust Decade in Review: The Best and the Worst
12-31-09
AAI Director Robert H. Lande compiled the best and worst in antitrust.
AAI Submits Comments to the DOJ-DOA Workshop on Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy
12-31-09
AAI Vice President Diana Moss submitted two documents to the DOJ today.
Legislative Reversal of Twombly and Iqbal: Testimony of Two Advisory Board Members
12-18-09
Speaking for themselves, attorney Jonathan Rubin and law professor Joshua Davis, members of the AAI Advisory Board, provided testimony to the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts and Competition on December 16.
Ellen Meriwether Joins AAI Advisory Board
12-18-09
Meriwether is a partner with the firm of Cafferty Faucher LLP, resident in the Philadelphia office. She specializes in antitrust and other complex commercial and class action litigation.