Speeches/Articles by

Jon Leibowitz, Commissioner

• “Excuse Me, I Think Your Shoe Is Ringing!” Getting Smart About Mobile Marketing
  Remarks of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz at the FTC Town Hall Meeting on “Beyond Voice: Mapping the Mobile Marketplace”
  May 6, 2008
  
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on the Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008
  Before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  April 8, 2008
• This Pill Not To Be Taken With Competition: How Collusion is Keeping Generic Drugs Off the Shelves [pdf]
  February 25, 2008
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz in the Google/DoubleClick Matter
  December 20, 2007
• Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Concurring in Part, Dissenting in Part In re Member Source Media, LLC and Chris Sommer
  December 12, 2007
• Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz In re Adteractive, Inc.
  November 28, 2007
• So Private, So Public: Individuals, The Internet & The Paradox Of Behavioral Marketing
  Remarks of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz at the FTC Town Hall Meeting on “Ehavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting & Technology”
  November 1, 2007
  *Commissioner Leibowitz's oral remarks deviated slightly from his prepared text
• Truth or Consequences: The FTC Approach to Advertising,
  Remarks of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz at The National Advertising Division Annual Conference (September 24, 2007)
• Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division Report on Spring/Summer 2006 Nationwide Gasoline Price Increases
• Statement of Commissioners Pamela Jones Harbour and Jon Leibowitz Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part, In the Matter of Kmart Corporation, File No. 062-3088, August 15, 2007
• Childhood Obesity and the Obligations of Food Marketers or Whether or Not You Are Part of the Problem, You Need to Be Part of the Solution
  Remarks of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz at the FTC/HHS Forum on Childhood Obesity,
  Washington, D.C.,  July 18, 2007
• Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, In the Matter of DirectRevenue LLC, File No. 052-3131, June 29, 2007
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Staff Report: “Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy,” June 27, 2007
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Hearing of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 2, 2007
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz for April 10, 2007
  Oversight Hearing Before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
  
• Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, In the Matter of DirectRevenue LLC, File No. 052-3131, February 16, 2007
• Navigating Between Dystopian Worlds on Network Neutrality: With Misery and Wretchedness on Each Side, Can We Find a Third Way?
  Remarks by Commissioner Jon Leibowitz to the Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy Workshop
  February 13, 2007
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Anticompetitive Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry before the Senate Judiciary Committee
  January 17, 2007
  
• The Changing Internet: Hips Don’t Lie
  Remarks of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz at the “Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade” Hearing
  November 6, 2006
  
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Staff Report: “Municipal Provision of Wireless Internet,”October 10, 2006
  
• How Settlements Make Strange Bedfellows: Or How the Federal Trade Commission has Managed to Unite the Entire Pharmaceutical Industry (but only in Opposition to the FTC’s Position on Exclusion Payment Settlements)
  Generic Pharmaceutical Association's Annual Policy Conference
  Washington, D.C. September 29, 2006
  
• Barriers to Generic Entry, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, July 20, 2006
  • Prepared Statement by the Federal Trade Commission
  • Oral Remarks
    
• Statement Concerning Whois Databases before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”)
  Meeting, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2006
  *Commissioner Leibowitz's oral remarks deviated slightly from the text of the Commission's prepared statement
  
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz Re: The Federal Trade Commission Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases: A Commission Report to Congress, Spring 2006
  
• Testimony on "Social Security Numbers in Commerce: Reconciling Beneficial Uses with Threats to Privacy" before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (May 11, 2006).
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
  • Oral Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz
    
• Exclusion Payments to Settle Pharmaceutical Patent Cases: They’re B-a-a-a-ck!
  (The Role of the Commission, Congress, and the Courts)
  Remarks by Jon Leibowitz, Second Annual In-House Counsel’s Forum on Pharmaceutical Antitrust
  Philadelphia, PA April 24, 2006
  
• Testimony on "Phone Records for Sale: Why Aren’t Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?" before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (February 1, 2006)
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
  • Oral Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz
    
• Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz and Commissioner Harbour concerning the closing of the investigation into Transactions Involving Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Adelphia Communications, January 31, 2006
  
• Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding TRUSTe's Trusted Download Beta Program, November 16, 2005
  
• Competition in the Information Society Uncorked and Unplugged
  Remarks before the 2005 Global Forum Palais D’Egmont Brussels, Belgium, November 8, 2005
  
• Following the Yellow Brick Road to a More Competitive Landscape
  Remarks before the FTC/DOJ Workshop on Competition Policy in the Real Estate Industry, October 25, 2005
  
• Municipal Broadband: Should Cities Have a Voice?
  National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), 25th Annual Conference - Washington, D.C., September 22, 2005
  
• Gasoline Price Changes: The Dynamic of Supply, Demand, and Competition: A Federal Trade Commission Report (2005)
  • Concurring Statement
    
• Speech for the Harmonious Consuming Environment Shanghai International Forum,
  Shanghai, China, June 27, 2005 (Chinese translation -- not reviewed)
  
• Oral Statement on Data Security and Cross-Border Fraud Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the United States Senate, June 16, 2005
  
• Health Care and the FTC: The Agency as Prosecutor and Policy Wonk
  (Health Care as the New Cement; and Actions Against the Pharmaceutical Industry as a Game of Whack-a-Mole)
  Antitrust in HealthCare Conference, American Bar Association/American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2005
  
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Trade Associations and Antitrust
  American Bar Association, Antitrust Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, March 30, 2005
  
• Genzyme Corporation’s Acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc., File No. 041-0083
  Concurring Statement
  
• Spam, Authentication and Ensuring the Promise of the Internet
  Welcoming Remarks on Day Two, FTC/NIST Email Authentication Summit, November 10, 2004