Speeches -- 2011

Past Speeches

• Privacy at the FTC: A Look Back At 2011
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  29th Annual Institute on Telecommunications Policy & Regulation
  Washington, DC
  December 8, 2011
• Face Facts
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  Facial Recognition Forum
  Washington, DC
  December 8, 2011
• Opening Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  As Prepared For Delivery
  Face Facts Forum
  Washington, DC
  December 8, 2011
• Antitrust Evaluation of Pay-for-Delay Settlements: A Persistent Quest for Balance
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  American Conference Institute’s Paragraph IV Disputes Conference
  San Francisco, CA
  December 7, 2011
• Privacy Implications of Social Media
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum
  Washington DC
  December 7, 2011
• Privacy: A Lesson from the Playroom
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  IAPP Practical Privacy Series
  Washington, DC
  December 6, 2011
• Statement of Commissioners Julie Brill, Jon Leibowitz and Edith Ramirez Regarding the Complaint and Proposed Consent Order
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  In re Pool Corporation
  FTC File No. 1010115
  November 21, 2011
• Privacy and Consumer Protection in Social Media
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  North Carolina Law Review 2011 Symposium
  Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  November 18, 2011
• Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz As Prepared for Delivery
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  Fall Forum 2011
  November 17, 2011
• Accountable Care Organizations: What Exactly Are We Getting?
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  ABA Section of Antitrust Law Fall Forum
  November 17, 2011
• 33rd Annual PMA Marketing Law Conference Keynote
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  PMA Marketing Law Conference Chicago, IL
  November 16, 2011
• Statement of Jon Leibowitz Nomination for a Second Term as Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  November 15, 2011
• At the Intersection of Online Advertising and Privacy: FTC Enforcement, Policy, and Encouragement of Self-Regulation
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as Prepared for Delivery
  Ad:Tech NY 2011 Conference
  New York, NY
  November 8, 2011
• Neutral on Internet Neutrality: Should There Be a Role for the Federal Trade Commission?
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Global Forum 2011: Vision for the Digital Future
  Brussels, Belgium
  November 7, 2011
• Emerging Theories of Competitive Harm in Merger Enforcement
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Published in the Antitrust Source (with co-author Darren Tucker)
  October 2011
• “Do Not Track: Privacy in an Internet Age”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Loyola Chicago Antitrust Institute Forum
  Chicago, Illinois
  October 14, 2011
• Online and Overexposed: Consumer Privacy, the FTC, and the Rise of the Cyberazzi
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as Prepared for Delivery
  National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
  October 11, 2011
• Marketing to Children: Privacy, Food and Digital Media
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  CARU Annual Conference New York, NY
  October 5, 2011
• Remarks Before the National Advertising Division Annual Conference
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  New York, NY
  October 3, 2011
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch, FTC v. Lundbeck, Inc.
  FTC File No. 0810156
  October 3, 2011
• A Life in Public Service: Finding Heroes in a Small World
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  2011 Sterry Waterman Lecture
  Vermont Law School South Royalton, VT
  September 27, 2011
• Does the EU Need a System of Private Competition Remedies to Supplement Public Law Enforcement?
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  2011 LIDC Congress
  Oxford, England
  September 23, 2011
• "Acing Antitrust"
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz As Prepared for Delivery
  Fifth Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
  Georgetown Law Center
  September 22, 2011
• Privacy: From the Woods to the Weeds
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  IAPP Privacy Academy
  Dallas, TX
  September 15, 2011
• Finding Heroes in a Small World
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture
  New York University School of Law
  New York, NY
  September 12, 2011
• Information and Privacy: In Search of a Data-Driven Policy
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Technology Policy Institute Aspen Forum
  Aspen, Colorado
  August 22, 2011
• A Competition Policy Perspective on Patent Law: The Federal Trade Commission’s Report on the Evolving IP Marketplace (With Lisa Kimmel)
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  The Antitrust Source
  August 2011
• Statement of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Antitrust and Anti-Monopoly Cooperation
  Beijing, China
  July 27, 2011
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Julie Brill
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  On the Statement of Policy Regarding Communications in Connection with the Collection of Decedent’s Debts
  July 20, 2011
• Concurring Statement of Commission Ramirez, in which Chairman Leibowitz and Commissioner Brill Join Final Rule: Mortgage Acts and Practices – Advertising
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  July 20, 2011
• Privacy and Data Security
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
  Before the Practising Law Institute
  July 19, 2011
• Response of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch to the Concurring Statement of Commissioner Ramirez
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  in which Chairman Leibowitz and Commissioner Brill Join:
  Final Rule: Mortgage Acts and Practices – Advertising
  July 19, 2011
• Dissenting in Part from “Internet Privacy: The Views of the FTC, FCC, and NTIA,”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
  July 14, 2011
• Statement of Commissioner Edith Ramirez on Internet Privacy
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
  Washington, DC
  July 14, 2011
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Julie Brill on Consumer Privacy
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
  Washington, DC
  June 29, 2011
• Privacy and Data Security: Protecting Consumers in the Modern World
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
  June 29, 2011
• Dissenting Statement in Part from “Privacy and Data Security:  Protecting Consumers in the Modern World,”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  June 29, 2011
• “Privacy: Tracking our Progress with Pomp and Circumstance”
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Before the Center for American Progress
  “Tracking: Where You Are, What You See, and What To Do”
  Washington, DC
  June 27, 2011
• Opening Remarks of Commissioner Edith Ramirez
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  The Federal Trade Commission Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Standard Setting
  Washington, DC
  June 21, 2011
• Designing a Private Remedies System for Antitrust Cases – Lessons Learned from the U.S. Experience
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  16th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop
  Fiesole, Italy
  June 17, 2011
• Statement of Commissioner Ramirez on Data Security
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
  Washington, DC
  June 15, 2011
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
• Opinion: Federal Agencies Are Going After Fraudulent Immigration Advisers
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  San Jose Mercury News
  June 11, 2011
• Learning From History: Mobile and the Future of Privacy
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  2011 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
  Washington, DC
  June 14, 2011
• Remarks of Commissioner Julie Brill
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Before the Executive Committee of the CTIA – The Wireless Association
  Washington, DC
  June 7, 2011
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Julie Brill
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  In the Matter of Grifols, S.A. a corporation, and Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp., a corporation
  FTC File No. 1010153, Docket No. C-4322
  June 1, 2011
• The International Competition Network: Its Past, Current and Future Role (with Hugh Hollman)
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  20:2 Minnesota Journal of International Law 274-323
  June 2011
• The International Competition Network:  Its Past, Current and Future Role (with Hugh Hollman)
  The International Competition Network at 10, 51-92 (Paul Lugard ed., 2011).
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• The Intersection of Consumer Protection and Competition in the New World of Privacy
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Competition Policy International
  Volume 7, Number 1
  Spring 2011
• The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: The Quest for Certainty in an Uncertain World
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Intellectual Property Litigation: Back to Business - Latham & Watkins LLP seminar
  Menlo Park, California
  May 18, 2011
• Patent Settlements, Patent Reform, and Mergers: Recent Developments in Pharmaceutical Antitrust
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Sixth Annual In-House Counsel Forum on Pharmaceutical Antitrust
  New York, NY
  May 11, 2011
• “Privacy and Responsibility: A Call for Industry Super-Heroes”
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Address by Commissioner Julie Brill
  Before the Computer and Communications Industry Association
  Washington, DC
  May 4, 2011
• Antitrust Issues Related to Benchmarking and Other Information Exchanges
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks before the ABA Section of Antitrust Law and ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education’s Teleseminar on Benchmarking and Other Information Exchanges Among Competitors
  Washington, DC
  May 3, 2011
• Obama’s Political ‘Price Gouging’
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Letter to the Editor, published in the Wall Street Journal
  May 2, 2011, page A14
• How Does Your Competition Agency Measure Up?  (with Hugh Hollman and Patricia Grant)
  William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  7 European Competition Journal 25
  April 2011
• Antitrust, Accountable Care Organizations, and the Promise of Health Care Reform
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  11th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium
  Chicago, Illinois
  April 29, 2011
  
• Highly Premature — And Costly — To Support ‘A Gallery of Dreams’
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Published by the Washington Post
  April 24, 2011
• “Consent Decrees: Is the Public Getting Its Money’s Worth?”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks Before the 18th St. Gallen International Competition Law Forum, Universitat St. GallenSt. Gallen, Switzerland
  April 7, 2011
• The Past and Future of Direct Effects Evidence
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  ABA Section of Antitrust Law’s 59th Spring Meeting
  Washington, DC
  March 30, 2011
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  In re Google Buzz, File No. 102 3136
  March 30, 2011
• “The Dissent: Why One FTC Commissioner Thinks Do Not Track is Off-Track”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Published in the March 28, 2011 issue of Advertising Age
  March 28, 2011
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Julie Brill
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  In the Matter of US Search, Inc., and US Search, LLC
  FTC File No. 102 3131, Docket No. C-4317
  March 25, 2011
• Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Julie Brill
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  On the Commission’s Decision to Withdraw it’s Appeal in FTC v. LabCorp
  Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff, v. Laboratory Corporation of American and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Defendants.
  United States District Court for the Central District of California
  Case No. 8:10-cv-01873-AG-MLG
  March 23, 2011
• The Role of the FTC, the States, and the New Bureau of Financial Consumer Protection in Today’s Marketplace
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Before the Consumer Federation of America Consumer Assembly
  Washington, DC
  March 18, 2011
• “The Role of the Commissioner at the FTC”
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Before the Association of Corporate Counsel, Westchester/Southern Connecticut Chapter (WESFACCA)
  Hartford, CT
  March 16, 2011
  
• Keynote Address of Commissioner Edith Ramirez
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Association of National Advertisers Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference
  Washington, DC
  March 15, 2011
• “Hot Topics at the Federal Trade Commission”
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Before the Connecticut State Bar Association Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Consumer Law and Federal Practice Sections
  New Haven, CT
  March 15, 2011
• A Word From Washington about Behavioral Advertising and Do Not Track
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  4A’s Transformation 2011 Conference
  Austin, Texas
  March 8, 2011
• Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch Respecting Proposed Regulations Implementing the Affordable Care Act.
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  March 3, 2011
• "Ten Lessons in Appellate Advocacy”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Howrey LLP Antitrust Fundamentals Seminar
  Washington, DC
  February 24, 2011
• Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group
  David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
  Orlando, Florida
  February 23, 2011
• Theoretical and Practical Observations on Cartel and Merger Enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  George Mason Law Review’s 14th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law
  Washington, DC
  February 9, 2011
• Statement of Commissioner Brill, In Which Chairman Leibowitz and Commissioners Rosch and Ramirez Join
  Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  In the Matters of SettlementOne Credit Corporation, et al., ACRAnet, Inc., and Fajilan and Associates, et al.
  FTC Nos. 0823208, 0923088, and 0923089
  February 3, 2011
• Consumer Protection Issues and the FTC: The Year Behind Us, The Year Ahead
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  American Bar Association’s Consumer Protection Conference
  Washington DC
  February 3, 2011
• “Some Thoughts on the Role of Intellectual Property in Innovation Market Cases and Refusals to License”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Conference on Antitrust and Digital Enforcement in the Technology Sector
  Menlo Park, CA
  January 31, 2011
• Last Dollar Fraud: The FTC's Response to the Foreclosure Crisis
  Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  Women in Housing and Finance
  Washington, DC
  January 27, 2011
• “The Great Doctrinal Debate: Under What Circumstances is Section 5 Superior to Section 2?”
  J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  New York State Bar Association Annual Antitrust Conference
  New York City
  January 27, 2011
• Helping Business Bear the New Financial Consumer Protection Regime
  Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
  Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as Prepared for Delivery United States Chamber of Commerce
  Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
  January 20, 2011