Geoffrey A. Manne is the founder and president of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics. In April 2017 he was appointed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, and he recently served for two years on the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee. Mr. Manne earned his JD and AB degrees from the University of Chicago and is an expert in the economic analysis of law, specializing in competition, telecommunications, consumer protection, intellectual property, and technology policy. Prior to founding ICLE, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School where he taught Law & Economics, Corporations, and International Economic Regulation. From 2006-2009, he took a leave from teaching to develop Microsoft’s law and economics academic outreach program. Manne has also served as a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced antitrust law and appellate litigation at Latham & Watkins, clerked for Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the FTC.
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Unpacking the Flawed 2021 Draft USPTO, NIST, & DOJ Policy Statement on Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs)* Responding to a new draft policy statement from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the U.S. Department of (...)
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Early last month, the Italian competition authority issued a record 1.128 billion euro fine against Amazon for abuse of dominance under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). In its order, the Agenzia Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) essentially (...)
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The Klobuchar Bill’s Not-So-Bright Lines for Antitrust Scrutiny* In a recent op-ed, Robert Bork Jr. laments the Biden administration’s drive to jettison the Consumer Welfare Standard that has formed nearly half a century of antitrust jurisprudence. The move can be seen in the near-revolution at (...)
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Building the Digital Future : Can the EU Foster a Dynamic and Crime-Free Internet ?* The European Commission has unveiled draft legislation (the Digital Services Act, or “DSA”) that would overhaul the rules governing the online lives of its citizens. The draft rules are something of a mixed bag. (...)
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Doing double damage : The German competition authority’s Facebook decision manages to undermine both antitrust and data protection law* The German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office or FCO) this week reached a decision in its nearly 3-year-old Facebook investigation. The decision appears (...)
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The DOJ’s approval of the CVS/Aetna Merger and vertical innovation by incumbents* Last week, the DOJ cleared the merger of CVS Health and Aetna (conditional on Aetna’s divesting its Medicare Part D business), a merger that, as I previously noted at a House Judiciary hearing, “presents a creative (...)
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The EU’s Google Android antitrust decision falls prey to the nirvana fallacy* Today the European Commission launched its latest salvo against Google, issuing a decision in its three-year antitrust investigation into the company’s agreements for distribution of the Android mobile operating (...)
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Everything is amazing - and no-one at the European Commission is happy* Since the European Commission (EC) announced its first inquiry into Google’s business practices in 2010, the company has been the subject of lengthy investigations by courts and competition agencies around the globe. (...)
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One of the most-anticipated cases of the year heard oral argument on September 9. Verizon appealed the FCC’s Open Internet Order (the agency’s Net Neutrality rules) to the D.C. Circuit. The case raises a number of interesting questions about competition policy, specifically, the interplay (...)
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Section 5 of the FTC Act gives the Commission authority to challenge “unfair methods of competition” (UMC). In June 2013, Commissioner Joshua Wright of the FTC released a proposed policy statement on the Commission’s UMC authority. His statement is intended to create guidance for enforcement (...)
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Introduction In January of 2013, the Federal Trade Commission and Google (acting through its subsidiary, Motorola Mobility) signed a Consent Order ending the agency’s investigation into a number of practices. Much of the Order is aimed at imposing antitrust-based limits on the allowable process (...)
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La poursuite de rabais de fidélité - et d’autres comportements antitrust liés aux prix - comporte des pièges importants pour les responsables de la politique antitrust. Les prix bas sont l’un des principaux avantages que la loi antitrust cherche à promouvoir. Et pourtant, lorsqu’il s’agit de prix bas, (...)
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L’idée que les plateformes pratiquant l’auto-préférence sont néfastes pour l’innovation est absolument hypothétique. En outre, cette idée est en totale opposition à une série d’études qui montrent que le contraire est probablement vrai. En fait, la concurrence entre plateformes est plus complexe que ce (...)
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Le livre numérique est un bien tout à fait singulier. Les modèles économiques de distribution de ce bien particulier sont originaux et très différents d’un système à l’autre. Les contentieux américain et européen autour des pratiques d’Apple et des éditeurs, la loi française sur le prix unique du livre (...)
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