Single-Firm Conduct and Antitrust Law

January 2007 Agenda

The Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cohosted hearings on single-firm conduct and antitrust law in 2006 and 2007. This page provides the January 2007 agenda.

For more information, consult the hearings information page or contact the Legal Policy Section at singlefirmconduct@usdoj.gov.

January 30: Business Testimony
Morning Session
(9:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST)

The sessions will be held at the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Wells Fargo Room, 2220 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720.

• Michael D. Hartogs, Senior Vice President and Division Counsel at QUALCOMM Technology Licensing. (Biography)
  • Presentation to FTC/DOJ Joint Hearings on Single Firm Conduct
• David A. Heiner, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Antitrust at Microsoft Corporation. (Biography)
  • Presentation: Predictability
• Scott K. Peterson, Senior Counsel at Hewlett-Packard Company (Biography)
  • Presentation: Transparency of Patent Licensing Information During Development of Standards Facilitates Efficiency in Markets for Technologies in Standards
• Robert A. Skitol, Senior Partner in the Antitrust Practice Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (Washington, D.C.) and Counsel to the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA). (Biography)
  • Presentation: How the Agencies Should Assist SDOs in Protecting Their Processes from Exclusionary Patent Holdup Conduct

Afternoon Session
(2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST)

• David A. Dull, Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel and Secretary at Broadcom Corporation. (Biography)
  • Remarks
• Michael E. Haglund, Partner at Haglund Kelley Horngren Jones & Wilder (Portland, Ore.) and Counsel to Ross-Simmons (Biography)
  • Testimony
• Thomas M. McCoy, Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Administrative Officer at AMD. (Biography)

Participant presentations and session transcript for January 30

January 31: Academic Testimony
Morning Session
(9:30 AM - 12:00 PM PST)

The sessions will be held at the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Wells Fargo Room, 2220 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720.

• Aaron Edlin, Richard Jennings Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. (Biography)
  • Presentation: Sacrifice, Extreme Sacrifice, and No Economic Sense
• Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley (Biography)
• Howard Shelanski, Associate Dean and a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. (Biography)

Afternoon Session
(1:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST)

• Timothy Bresnahan, Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy in the Economics Department at Stanford University. (Biography)
• Presentation: The Economics of Monopolization: A Simple (as possible) Antitrust Analysis
• Richard Gilbert, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and the Chair of the Berkeley Competition Policy Center (Biography)
  • Presentation: Holding Innovation to an Antitrust Standard
• Daniel Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. (Biography)
• Carl Shapiro, TransAmerica Professor of Business Strategy and Professor of Economics and the Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley. (Biography)

Participant presentations and session transcript for January 31