Speeches, Articles, and Statements by

Jon Leibowitz, Commissioner

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2008

• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz regarding Rescission of FTC Guidance on Cigarette Testing Methodology (Nov. 26, 2008).
• “Tales from the Crypt.” Episodes ’08 and ’09: The Return of Section 5 (“Unfair Methods of Competition in Commerce are Hereby Declared Unlawful”)
  Remarks by Commissioner Leibowitz at the FTC Workshop: Section 5 of the FTC Act as a Competition Statute
  October 17, 2008
• Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Marketing Food to Children & Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities & Self-Regulation
  U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, Education & Related Agencies
  September 23, 2008
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission 
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation Report
  July 29, 2008
  • Staff Report
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Funding Request and Budget Justification for the Federal Trade Commission
  Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
  May 14, 2008
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
• “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
  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]
  The Washington Post
  February 25, 2008

2007

• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz In re Proposed Acquisition of Hellman Friedman Capital Partners V, LP, by Google Inc. (Google/DoubleClick)
  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
  August 30, 2007
• Statement of Commissioners Pamela Jones Harbour and Jon Leibowitz Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part In re Kmart Corporation
  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 re DirectRevenue LLC
  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 on Anticompetitive Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce
  May 2, 2007
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Technology Issues at the Commission
  Oversight Hearing Before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
  April 10, 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
  Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  January 17, 2007
  • Charts Referenced in Oral Statement
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission

2006

• 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
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Internet Governance: The Future of ICANN
  Subcommittee on Trade, Tourism and Economic Development of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
  September 15, 2006
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
    
• Oral Remarks of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Barriers to Generic Entry
  U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging
  July 20, 2006
  • Prepared Statement by the Federal Trade Commission
    
• 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 CommissionerJon Leibowitz Regarding The Federal Trade Commission Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases: A Commission Report to Congress
  May 22, 2006
  
• Oral Statement of CommissionerJon Leibowitz on Social Security Numbers in Commerce: Reconciling Beneficial Uses with Threats to Privacy
  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
    
• 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
  
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Phone Records for Sale: Why Aren’t Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?
  House Committee on Energy and Commerce
  February 1, 2006
  • Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission
    
• Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz and Commissioner Harbour Concerning the Closing of the Investigation into Transactions Involving Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Adelphia Communications
  January 31, 2006
  

2005

• 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
  
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on "Gasoline Price Changes: The Dynamic of Supply, Demand, and Competition: A Federal Trade Commission Report"
  July 5, 2005
  
• Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on Data Security and Cross-Border Fraud
  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
  
• Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz In re Genzyme Corporation's Acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc.
  February 4, 2005
  

2004

• Spam, Authentication and Ensuring the Promise of the Internet
  Welcoming Remarks on Day Two, FTC/NIST Email Authentication Summit
  November 10, 2004