Speeches -- 2009

Past Speeches

• Introductory Remarks for Sizing Up: Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity Workshop (As Prepared for Delivery)
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  (December 15, 2009)
• The Role of the FTC in Consumer Privacy Protection
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  International Association of Privacy Professionals Practical Privacy Series
  December 8, 2009
• Introductory Remarks for FTC Privacy Roundtable
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  (December 7, 2009)
• Remarks Before FTC Exploring Privacy Roundtable
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Washington, D.C
  (December 7, 2009)
• Statement of Chairman Leibowitz on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children:  A Sixth Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  December 3, 2009
  
• “Creative Destruction” or Just “Destruction”, How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?
  Opening Remarks of Chairman Jon Leibowitz
  FTC News Media Workshop
  December 1 - 2, 2009
  
• “Pay-for-Delay Settlements, Authorized Generics, and Follow-on Biologics: Thoughts on the How Competition Law Can Best Protect Consumer Welfare in the Pharmaceutical Context”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  World Generic Medicine Congress
  Washington, D.C.
  November 19, 2009
• “Enforcement Priorities in the New Administration”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Global Competition Review’s 2009 Competition Law Review
  Brussels, Belgium
  November 17, 2009
• The Application of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  ABA Fall Forum, Washington, D.C.
  November 12, 2009
• Privacy:  Where do we go from here?
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
  Madrid, Spain
  November 6, 2009
• Letter from Mary K. Engle, Associate Director, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection to President and Chief Executive Officer of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Randall Rothenberg, Setting the Record Straight on the FTC's Testimonial and Endorsements Guide
  (October 30, 2009)
• Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz on passage of H.R. 3126, the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2009 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  October 29, 2009
• “Some Reflections on the Future of the Internet:  Net Neutrality, Online Behavioral Advertising, and Health Information Technology”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  Telecommunications & E-Commerce Committee Fall Meeting
  Washington, D.C.
  October 26, 2009
• Priorities for Dietary Supplement Advertising Enforcement
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  Council for Responsible Nutrition Annual Symposium for the Dietary Supplement Industry
  Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  October 22, 2009
• Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Senate Judiciary Committee’s Passage of the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act (S. 369)
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  October 15, 2009
• Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Announcement that Arthur D. Levinson Has Resigned from Google’s Board
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  October 12, 2009
• "Wading Into Pandora’s Box: Thoughts On Unanswered Questions Concerning the Scope and Application of Section 2 & Some Further Observations on Section 5"
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  The LECG Newport Summit on Antitrust Law & Economics
  Newport, RI
  October 3, 2009
• Remarks before the National Advertising Division Annual Conference
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  New York, NY
  October 5, 2009
• Promoting Consumer Privacy: Accountability and Transparency in the Modern World
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  New York University
  October 2, 2009
• “A Healthcare Triptych”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Reprinted from September 28, 2009 FTC Watch.
• Federal Trade Commission Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws
  Remarks of Chairman Jon Leibowitz as prepared for delivery at the 36th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy of the Fordham Competition Law Institute at Fordham Law School
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  September 24, 2009
• Introduction of Philip Lowe and Announcement of Joint FTC/DOJ Project to Modernize the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
  Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as prepared for delivery at the Third Annual Georgetown Law Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  September 22, 2009
• “Thoughts on the FTC’s Relationship (Constitutional and Otherwise) to the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches”
  Before the Berlin Forum for EU-US Legal-Economic Affairs
  Berlin, Germany
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  September 19, 2009
• “Terra Incognita: Vertical and Conglomerate Merger and Interlocking Directorate Law Enforcement in the United States”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  University of Hong Kong
  Hong Kong, China
  September 11, 2009
• Rating the Competition Agencies:  What Constitutes Good Performance?
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  16 George Mason Law Review 903
  2009
• Statement of Commissioner Harbour Regarding the Letters Between the Bureau of Consumer Protection and Google Inc. Concerning the Google Books Project
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  September 2009
• Cartels as Two-Stage Mechanisms: Implications for the  Analysis of Dominant-Firm Conduct  (with Randal D. Heeb,  Robert C. Marshall, and Leslie M. Marx ) 
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  10 Chicago Journal of International Law 213
  Summer 2009
• Statement Submitted for the Record by Commissioner William E. Kovacic on the Proposal to Create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to the Committee on Energy & Commerce and the Committee on Financial Services
  U.S. House of Representatives
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  July 28, 2009
• Statement for the Record of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch on “The Proposal to Create A Consumer Financial Protection Agency”
  Before the House Committee on Financial Services
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  July 21, 2009 (substantially similar to Statement submitted to House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on July 16, 2009)
• Statement on Trade Associations' Privacy Principles for Behavioral Advertising
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  July 2, 2009
• "Thoughts on the Withdrawal of the DOJ Section 2 Report”
  Before the IBA/ABA Conference on Antitrust in a Global Economy
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  New York, NY
  June 25, 2009
• "Endorsements and Testimonials Guides”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  American Conference Institute’s Regulatory Summit for Advertisers and Marketers
  Washington, DC
  June 25, 2009
• "Concurring Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch on the Release of the Commission’s Interim Report on Authorized Generics”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  June 24, 2009
• "Pay-for-Delay" Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: How Congress Can Stop Anticompetitive Conduct, Protect Consumer' Wallets, and Help Pay for Health Care Reform (The $35 Billion Solution)
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  June 23,2009
• “Observations on Evidentiary Issues in Antitrust Cases”
  Remarks before the EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Florence, Italy
  June 19, 2009
• "Emerging Health Care Issues: Follow-on Biologic Drug Competition"
  Testimony of Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour Before the Subcommittee on Health Committee on Energy and Commerce United States House of Representatives
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  June 11, 2009
• Follow-On Biologic Drug Competition: A Report by the Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks as prepared for delivery to the Health Industry Forum “Federal Strategies for Promoting Affordable Biologics: Enhancing Market Competition”
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Washington, DC
  June 11, 2009
• "Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch on the Abandonment of the Endocare/Galil Medical, Ltd. Merger”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  June 9, 2009
• “The Redemption Of A Republican”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Reprinted from FTC Watch,
  June 1, 2009
• “Antitrust Law Enforcement: What To Do About The Current Economics Cacophony?”
  Before the Bates White Antitrust Conference, Washington, D.C.
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  June 1, 2009
• Competition Policy and International Trade Liberalisation:  Essential Complements to Ensure Good Performance in Public Procurement Markets (with Robert D. Anderson)
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  18 Public Procurement Law Review (2009)
• Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal Merger Enforcement
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  5 Competition Policy International 129 (2009)
• Resale Price Maintenance
  Testimony of Pamela Jones Harbour before the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  April 28, 2009
• Clinical Integration: The Changing Policy Climate and What it Means for Care Coordination
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  American Hospital Association, Annual Membership Meeting
  Washington, DC
  April 27, 2009
• “The Supreme Court’s Antitrust Jurisprudence: Will The Past Be Prologue?”
  Before the Antitrust Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, Hartford, CT
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  April 23, 2009
• “Consumer Protection and the Debt Settlement Industry: A View From the Commission”
  Before the 4th Annual Credit and Collection News Conference
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Carlsbad, California
  April 2, 2009
• Oral Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch on “How Pay-For-Delay Settlements Make Consumers and the Federal Government Pay More for Needed Drugs,”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce
  March 31, 2009
• Remarks before the 2009 American Bar Association Antitrust Law Spring Meeting,
  David Wales, Acting Director, Bureau of Competition
  Washington, D.C.,
  March 27, 2009
• “The FTC’s Section 5 Hearings:  New Standards for Unilateral Conduct?”
  Remarks of J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission Before the ABA 57th Antitrust Law Section Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  March 25, 2009
• The Future of U.S. Competition Policy at Home and Abroad
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Competition Law Association, London, England
  March 23, 2009
• Looking Backward And Forward:  Some Thoughts on Consumer Protection
  Remarks Prepared by J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, for the Association of National Advertisers
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  5th Annual Advertising Law and Business Affairs Conference, New York, NY
  March 11, 2009
• Remarks by Chairman Jon Leibowitz at the 2009 Center for Democracy and Technology Gala
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  March 10, 2009
• Engineering the Competition Agency of the Future:  Perspectives from the FTC Self Study
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Office of Fair Trade, London, England 
  March 4, 2009
• Rating the Competition Agencies:  What Constitutes Good Performance?
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Kings College, London, England 
  March 4, 2009
• The EC’s Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry Preliminary Report—Wading Into The Thicket of The Antitrust/Intellectual Property Law Overlap
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Innsbruck Symposium on Innovation and Competition Law
  Innsbruck, Austria
  February 26, 2009
• Competition Policy in the EU and the US: Convergence or Divergence?
  William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  FIDE, Madrid, Spain
  February 17, 2009
• Energy and Competition Policy in United States
  William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  CNE, Madrid, Spain
  February 17, 2009
• The Continuing Pursuit of Better Practices: Perspectives from the FTC Self-Study
  William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  CNE, Madrid, Spain
  February 17, 2009
• Consumer Benefits and Harms from Resale Price Maintenance:  Sorting the Beneficial Sheep from the Antitrust Goats?
  Opening Remarks at Resale Price Maintenance Workshop
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  February 17, 2009
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, FTC Staff Report: Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising
  Jon Leibowitz, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  (February 2009)
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, FTC Staff Report: Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising
  Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  (February 2009)
• “Antitrust Regulation Of Innovation Markets”
  Remarks before the ABA Antitrust Intellectual Property Conference, Berkeley, CA
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  February 5, 2009
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz In re Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals et. al.
  Jon Leibowitz, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  February 2, 2009
• Implications of the Financial Meltdown for the FTC
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  New York Bar Association Annual Dinner
  New York, NY
  January 29, 2009
• “Interview with J. Thomas Rosch Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  ABA Antitrust Section of Law Antitrust Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 2009.
  January 26, 2009
• Engineering the Competition Agency of the Future: Perspectives from the FTC Self-Study
  William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  ICN Agency Effectiveness Workshop
  Brussels
  January 23, 2009
• The Federal Trade Commission at 100:  Into Our Second Century
  The Continuing Pursuit of Better Practices:  A Report by Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic
  William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  January 2009