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September 28, 2016

The DOJ-FTC IP Guidelines: Suggestions for Promoting Innovation

Kristian Stout

This week, the International Center for Law & Economics filed comments on the proposed revision to the joint U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust-IP Licensing Guidelines.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 26, 2016

Comments, In the Matter of the Joint Guidelines for the Licensing of IP

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne

The proposed guidelines are founded on a commendable set of underlying assumptions: that intellectual property (“IP”) is, for antitrust purposes, amenable to the same sort of analysis that applies to other forms of property...

Intellectual Property

July 27, 2016

ICLE & TechFreedom Policy Comments

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

The Commission’s NPRM would shoehorn the business models of a subset of new economy firms into a regime modelled on thirty-year-old CPNI rules designed to address fundamentally different concerns about a fundamentally different market.

Telecommunications

July 6, 2016

Comments, Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Telecom Services

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

The NPRM and many of the comments supporting it reflect an ill-considered approach to privacy regulation for ISPs.

Telecommunications

July 5, 2016

Statement, EU Evaluation & Review of the E-Privacy Directive

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

The Commission’s interest in protecting the privacy of its citizens is commendable.

Data Security & Privacy

May 23, 2016

Reply Comments, Expanding Consumers’ Video Navigation Choices, FCC

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

"The Commission undertakes this rulemaking with the commendable goal of enhancing competition. But even the noblest of goals cannot be pursued by plainly illegal means. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what these proposed rules would do..."

Telecommunications

May 1, 2016

Testimony, Legislative Hearing on 17 FTC Bills, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka

"Congressional reauthorization of the FTC is long overdue. It has been twenty-two years since Congress last gave the FTC a significant course-correction and even that one, codifying the heart of the FTC’s 1980 Unfairness Policy Statement, has not had the effect Congress expected..."

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 22, 2016

Comments, In the Matter of Expanding Consumers’ Video Navigation Choices, FCC

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne

"In this proceeding the Commission proposes to “open” the market for multichannel video programming distributor (“MVPD”) set-top box video interfaces..."

Telecommunications

January 4, 2016

Comments, 9/12/15 Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services, TRAI

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne

"The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”)’s tradition of regulatory humility — the “forbearance and flexibility” that has characterized its approach to telecommunications services regulation — has enabled the explosive growth of internet usage throughout India..."

Innovation & The New Economy

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