Speeches -- 1996

Past Speeches

• "Staying Ahead of the Merger Wave"
  George S. Cary, before the 15th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, J.W. Marriott Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, December 12, 1996
• "The Federal Trade Commission's Green Guides: A Success Story"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, December 4, 1996
• "Developments in Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission: Achieving Customer Satisfaction in a Government Law Enforcement Agency"
  Mary L. Azcuenaga, before the PMAA Promotion Law/Marketing Conference, Promotion Marketing Association of America, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., November 20, 1996
• "FTC Staff Report on Competition Policy: Six Months After"
  Robert Pitofsky, before American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, The Changing Nature of Competition--Legal and Policy Implications, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1996
• "Beyond the Health Care Policy Statements: Where Do We Go from Here?"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the 30th Annual Antitrust Institute on Healthcare Antitrust Developments, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1, 1996  
• "Reflections on 20 Years of Merger Enforcement under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act"
  William Baer, before The Conference Board, Washington, D.C., October 29, 1996 and before The 35th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Northwestern University School of Law, Corporate Law Center, San Francisco, CA, October 31, 1996
• "Current Issues in Health Care Antitrust Enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission"
  William Baer, before the American Bar Association, Antitrust & Health Care: New Approaches and Challenges, Omni Royal Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 24, 1996
• "International Cooperation in Antitrust Enforcement and Other International Antitrust Developments"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before "Antitrust 1997," A Conference Presented by Business Development Associates, Inc., Madison Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1996  
• "The Federal Trade Commission and International Antitrust"
  Christine A. Varney, before the Fordham Corporate Law Institute, 23rd annual conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy, New York City, October 17, 1996
• "Myths and Half-Truths About Deceptive Advertising"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the National Infomercial Marketing Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 15, 1996
• "Contemporary Empirical Merger Analysis"
  Jonathan Baker, before The George Mason University Law Review Symposium , "Antitrust in the Information Revolution: New Economic Approaches for Analyzing Antitrust Issues", Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Rosslyn, Virginia , October 11, 1996 Revised: February 7, 1997
• "Antitrust Analysis of Hospital Networks and Shared Services Arrangements"
  Robert F. Leibenluft, before the American Hospital Association, Sixth Annual OGC/Allied Legal Counsel Seminar, New York, New York, October 10, 1996  
• "Consumer Privacy in the Information Age: A View from the United States"
  Christine A. Varney, before the Privacy & American Business National Conference, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1996
• The Evolution of U.S. Merger Law
  Debra A. Valentine, Prepared Remarks before INDECOPI Conference, August 13, 1996  
• "Competition and Consumer Protection Concerns in the Brave New World of Electronic Money"
  Robert Pitofsky, before the United States Department of the Treasury Conference--Toward Electronic Money & Banking: The Role of Government, Washington, D.C., September 19, 1996
• Keynote Remarks
  Janet D. Steiger, before the Practicing Law Institute's Conference on "False Advertising and the Law: Coping with Today's Challenges," New York, New York, September 17, 1996
• "Consumer Protection in the Information Society: A View from the United States
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the European Consumer Forum on the Consumer and the Information Society, Dublin Castle, September 4, 1996  
• "Unilateral Competitive Effects Theories in Merger Analysis "
  Jonathan Baker, before Antitrust Developments Program, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, Annual Meeting, Grand Floridian Hotel, Orlando, Florida, August 6, 1996  
• "Competition and Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: Proposal from the Federal Trade Commission Staff Report on Competition Policy in the New High-Tech, Global Marketplace"
  Susan DeSanti, before the 1996 Annual Meeting, Section of Antitrust Law, The American Bar Association, Orlando, Florida, August 6, 1996
• "Reinventing Health Care Antitrust Enforcement"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before The Antitrust Common Ground Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 17, 1996  
• "International Cooperation in Antitrust Enforcement"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before The Illinois State Bar Association, International Trade Program, Chicago, Illinois, May 10, 1996  
• "The Problem with Baker Hughes and Syufy: On the Role of Entry in Merger Analysis"
  Jonathan Baker, before Charles River Associates Incorporated, Conference on Economists’ Perspective on Antitrust Today, The Boston Mariott Hotel, Boston, MA, April 25, 1996  
• Prepared Remarks
  Janet D. Steiger, before the National Association of Retail Druggists, Loews L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC, April 22, 1996  
• "Demand Draft Fraud"
  Joan Z. Bernstein, before the House Banking Committee, Washington, DC, April 15, 1996  
• "Competition and Consumer Protection Enforcement: Aiming Toward a Common Goal in the Emerging Global Marketplace"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the 20th Annual International Business Law Institiute on the Practice of International Business Transactions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 11, 1996  
• "Report from the Bureau of Competition: Looking Back and Going Forward"
  William Baer, before the 44th Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting, Federal Trade Commission Committee, Washington, D.C., March 28, 1996  
• "Hot Topics at the Federal Trade Commission"
  Jonathan Baker, before American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, 44th Annual Spring Meeting, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, March 28, 1996
• "Failure To Comply with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act: Braveheart or Dead Man Walking?"
  George S. Cary, before the Clayton Act Committee, 44th Annual Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Washington, D. C., March 28, 1996
• "Horizontal Price-Fixing in Cyberspace"
  Jonathan Baker, before The 1996 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues in Today’s Economy. Sponsored by: The Conference Board, The New York Hilton & Towers Hotel, New York, New York, March 7, 1996
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  "Selected Themes from the FTC's Hearings on Global and Innovation-Based Competition"
  Susan DeSanti, before the 1996 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues in Today’s Economy, The Conference Board, New York, New York, March 7, 1996  
• "Intellectual Property and Antitrust: Divergent Paths to the Same Goal"
  Debra A. Valentine, before the Antitrust 1996 Business Development Associates Conference, Washington, D.C., March 5, 1996  
• "An Antitrust Progress Report for the FTC: Past, Present and Future"
  Robert Pitofsky, before the 1996 Antitrust Conference, Business Development Associates Inc., Washington D.C., March 4, 1996  
• "To Your Health: An FTC Review of Safety Related Marketing"
  Christine A. Varney, before the 1996 International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization Symposium, Orlando, Florida, February 29, 1996
• "Testimony of the Federal Trade Commission Concerning H.R. 2925, and the Application of the Antitrust Laws to Health Care Provider Networks"
  Robert Pitofsky, before The Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives, Washington D.C., February 27, 1996  
• "Innovation Markets in Merger Review Analysis: The FTC Perspective"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the Continuing Legal Education Seminar, The Florida Bar, Orlando, Florida, February 23, 1996  
• "Product Differentiation Through Space and Time: Some Antitrust Policy Issues"
  Jonathan Baker, before the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York City, New York, February 6, 1996  
• "The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Issues: A Report from the FTC Hearings"
  Susan DeSanti, before the Conference: Antitrust for High-Tech Companies; Business Development Associates, San Francisco, CA, February 2, 1996  
• "The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Adaptations, Aphorisms and Advancing the Debate"
  Mary L. Azcuenaga, before the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Antitrust/Intellectual Property Claims in High Technology Markets, San Francisco, California, January 25, 1996  
• "The Dollar and Sense of Antitrust Enforcement"
  William Baer, before the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association, New York, New York, January 25, 1996  
• "Antitrust and Intellectual Property in the Year 2000"
  Mary L. Azcuenaga, before the American Intellectual Property Law Association, La Quinta, California, January 24, 1996
• "Advertising and Unfair Competition: FTC Enforcement"
  Christine A. Varney, before the ALI-ABA Eleventh Annual Advanced Course on "Product Distribution and Marketing", Snowbird, Utah, January 17, 1996  
• "Vertical Restraints Enforcement at the FTC"
  Christine A. Varney, before the ALI-ABA Eleventh Annual Advanced Course on "Product Distribution and Marketing", Snowbird, Utah, January 16, 1996  
• "Antitrust Issues in Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems"
  Roscoe B. Starek, III, before the "1996 Conference on Practice Management" Presented by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 13, 1996
• "Federal Trade Commission Solicits Consumer Research"
  Joan Z. Bernstein, The following article will appear in Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 23, Eds. Kim P. Corfman and John G. Lynch, Jr., Provo, Utah: Association for Consumer Research, to be published in 1996.