Speeches, Articles, and Statements by
Jon Leibowitz, Chairman
Commissioner (2004-2009)
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Speeches and Articles
General Oversight
- Farewell Remarks to FTC Staff of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz
Thanks, Wow, Help: The Essential FTC
Washington, DC
February 13, 2013
Internet, Telecom, Technology
- Remarks of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (As Prepared For Delivery)
Mobile Privacy Press Event
Washington, DC
February 1, 2013 - Opening Remarks of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (As Prepared for Delivery)
Google Press Conference
Washington, DC
January 3, 2013 - FCC Workshop: Consumers, Transparency and the Open Internet (As Prepared for Delivery)
Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
(January 19, 2010) - Introductory Remarks for FTC Privacy Roundtable
Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
(December 7, 2009) - “Creative Destruction” or Just “Destruction”, How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?
Opening Remarks of Chairman Jon Leibowitz
FTC News Media Workshop
December 1 - 2, 2009 - Remarks by Chairman Jon Leibowitz at the 2009 Center for Democracy and Technology Gala
March 10, 2009 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Municipal Broadband: Should Cities Have a Voice?
National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), 25th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
September 22, 2005 - Spam, Authentication and Ensuring the Promise of the Internet
Welcoming Remarks on Day Two, FTC/NIST Email Authentication Summit
November 10, 2004
Consumer Protection
- Everything but the Cape: Careers for Superheroes at the FTC (As Prepared For Delivery)
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
Harvard Law School
October 10, 2012 - Helping Business Bear the New Financial Consumer Protection Regime
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as Prepared for Delivery United States Chamber of Commerce
Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
January 20, 2011 - Fighting for the Middle Class: The FTC Tackles Mortgage Rescue Fraud
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as Prepared for Delivery
November 19, 2010
Privacy
- Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz (As Prepared For Delivery)
Updated COPPA Rule Press Conference
Russell Senate Office Building
Washington D.C.
December 19, 2012 - Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz (As Prepared for Delivery)
White House Privacy Event
February 23, 2012
Diversity
- "Beyond the Numbers: Creating An Inclusive Environment" (As Prepared for Delivery)
Opening Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
Federal Trade Commission Inaugural Diversity Summit
Washington, DC
January 19, 2012
Healthcare
- "Are Titanic Health Care Costs Sinking Us? What the FTC is Doing to Keep Patients Afloat"
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
As Prepared For Delivery
Antitrust in Healthcare Conference
American Bar Association/American Health Lawyers Association
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Arlington, Virginia
May 3, 2012 - Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as Prepared for Delivery at the FTC/CMS Workshop on Accountable Care Organizations
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - "A Doctor And A Lawyer Walk Into A Bar: Moving Beyond Stereotypes"
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz As Prepared for Delivery Before the American Medical Association House of Delegates
Chicago, Illinois
June 14, 2010 - This Pill Not To Be Taken With Competition: How Collusion is Keeping Generic Drugs Off the Shelves [PDF]
The Washington Post
February 25, 2008 - 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 - 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
Advertising and Marketing
- “Where’s the Remote? Maintaining Consumer Control in the Age of Behavioral Advertising”
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz As Prepared for Delivery at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association The Cable Show 2010
Los Angeles, California
May 12, 2010 - Introductory Remarks for Sizing Up: Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity Workshop (As Prepared for Delivery)
(December 15, 2009) - Statement on Trade Associations' Privacy Principles for Behavioral Advertising
Chairman Jon Leibowitz
July 2, 2009 - Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, FTC Staff Report: Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (February 2009)
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz regarding Rescission of FTC Guidance on Cigarette Testing Methodology (Nov. 26, 2008).
- “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 - 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 - 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
Competition and Antitrust
- Opening Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
As Prepared For Delivery
Patent Assertion Entity Activities Workshop
Washington D.C.
December 10, 2012 - "Making the Grade? A Year at the FTC"
Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, As Prepared for Delivery at the Fourth Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium (Georgetown Law Center)
Washington, D.C.
September 21, 2010 - Introduction of Philip Lowe and Announcement of Joint FTC/DOJ Project to Modernize the Horizontal Merger Guidelines Remarks of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz as prepared for delivery at the Third Annual Georgetown Law Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
September 22, 2009 - “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 - 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 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Trade Associations and Antitrust
American Bar Association, Antitrust Spring Meeting, Washington, DC
March 30, 2005
Congressional Testimony
General Oversight
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
Internet, Telecom, Technology
- Oral Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz on The Future of ICANN
Subcommittee on Trade, Tourism and Economic Development of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
September 15, 2006
Healthcare
- 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 Anticompetitive Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
January 17, 2007 - Oral Remarks of CommissionerJon Leibowitz on Barriers to Generic Entry
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging
July 20, 2006
Privacy
- 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 - 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
Advertising and Marketing
- 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
Commissioner Statements
International
- Statement of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz
Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Antitrust and Anti-Monopoly Cooperation
Beijing, China
July 27, 2011
Internet, Telecom, Technology
- Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz on passage of H.R. 3126, the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2009 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee
October 29, 2009 - Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Senate Judiciary Committee’s Passage of the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act (S. 369)
October 15, 2009 - Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Announcement that Arthur D. Levinson Has Resigned from Google’s Board
October 12, 2009 - Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Concurring in Part, Dissenting in Part In re Member Source Media, LLC and Chris Sommer
January 30, 2008 - 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 - Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz In re Adteractive, Inc.
November 28, 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 - Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Staff Report: “Municipal Provision of Wireless Internet”
October 10, 2006 - 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 - Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding TRUSTe's Trusted Download Beta Program
November 16, 2005
Healthcare
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz In re Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals et. al.
February 2, 2009 - Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz In re Federal Trade Commission v. Ovation Pharmaceuticals, Inc.December 16, 2008
- Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part in the Matter of Cephalon, Inc.
February 13, 2008 - Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz In re Genzyme Corporation's Acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc.
February 4, 2005
Advertising and Marketing
- Statement of Chairman Leibowitz on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Sixth Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
December 3, 2009 - 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 - Statement of Commissioners Pamela Jones Harbour and Jon Leibowitz Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part In re Kmart Corporation
August 15, 2007
Gasoline Prices
- 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 - 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 - 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