Competition Advocacy Program

The GAI provides to foreign and domestic competition agencies recommendations on proposed legislation and enforcement guidelines. These recommendations are designed to facilitate the adoption of economically sound competition policy. To date, the GAI has submitted comments to Australia, Canada, China, the Dominican Republic, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, the United States, and Vietnam. The comments concern draft proposals and on guidelines covering issues such as the comprehensive revisions to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law, the economics of multisided platforms, conduct involving standard-essential patents, patent-assertion entities, reverse payment settlement agreements, and so called “product hopping.”

In January 2018, Tad Lipsky began serving as the Director of the Competition Advocacy Program. He also serves as the Director of the GAI Legal Practicum, which is an opportunity for six to eight Scalia Law students to work with the GAI team to identify comment opportunities and provide recommendations on draft laws and policies.

Let the Fastest Runners Sprint: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on the European Commission’s Calls for Contributions on Competition in Virtual Worlds and Generative AI
March 11, 2024

Global Antitrust Institute Response to the ITA-USPTO-NIST Request for Information on Standards-Essential Patents
November 8, 2023

Radical New Burdens for Marginal Benefit: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on Proposed HSR Rule Amendments
September 21, 2023

Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines’ Emphasis on Structural Antitrust
September 16, 2023

The DOJ/FTC’s Problematic Approach to Potential Competition: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the Proposed Merger Guidelines
September 16, 2023

What’s Gone Up is Coming Down? Vertical Mergers in the 2023 DOJ-FTC Draft Merger Guidelines, Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute
September 16, 2023

IP Rights Delayed are IP Rights Denied: The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the European Commission’s 2023 Proposal to Regulate Standard-Essential Patents
August 16, 2023

Legal Restraints on Single-Firm Conduct in the Digital Age: The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the European Commission’s “Call for Evidence” and Concurrent Announcements Regarding Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance Under Article 102, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
April 28, 2023

Always or Almost Always Anticompetitive? The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the FTC’s Proposed Rule Banning Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Contracts
April 17, 2023

Before the Canadian Competition Bureau: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on Draft Enforcement Guidance on Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements
March 24, 2023

Justified Regulatory Reform in Antitrust Requires Cost-Benefit Analysis: Global Antitrust Institute Comment to the Australian Treasury on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s Digital Platform Services Inquiry, Interim Report No. 5 (Regulatory Reform)
January 23, 2023

Supply-Side Factors Identify Market Participants, Not Markets: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the EC’s Draft Notice on Defining Relevant Markets for EU Competition Law
January 10, 2023

The 2022 Revision of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law: Global Antitrust Institute Comments on Draft Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China Concerning Application of the Law in Civil Disputes Arising from Monopolistic Conduct
January 4, 2023

Colluding to Go Green: Global Antitrust Institute Comments on the Austrian Federal Competition Authority’s Draft Guidelines to Exempt “Sustainability Agreements”
June 22, 2022

Efficiencies in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022

Monopsony and Labor Markets in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment of the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022

Potential and Nascent Competition in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022

Presumptions in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022

Purpose, Harms, and Scope in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022

Comment on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Digital Platform Services Inquiry’s Discussion Paper for Interim Report No. 5: Updating Competition and Consumer Law for Digital Platform Services
April 14, 2022

Comment on the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and National Institute of Standards Draft Policy Statement on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments
February 8, 2022

Comment to the Federal Trade Commission on Accountable Tech Petition for Rulemaking to Prohibit Tailored Advertising
January 26, 2022

Comment to the New York Senate Committee on Consumer Protection in Connection with Its Pending Consideration of the Twenty-First Century Antitrust Act (S.933)
June 4, 2021

Comment Before the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy “GWB Digitalization Act”
November 5, 2020

Comment on the European Commission’s Notice on the Definition of Relevant Market for the Purposes of Community Competition Law
October 9, 2020

Comment on the Noncompete Clauses Used in Employment Contracts
February 7, 2020

Comment on the Swedish Competition Authority’s Proposed Market Study of Digital Platforms
November 30, 2019

Comment on the Infocommunications Media Development Authority (IMDA): Convergence of Competition Code for the Media and Telecommunications Markets
May 14, 2019

Comment on the Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Deception, Materiality, and the Economics of Consumer Protection
March 8, 2019

Comment on the Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Consumer Privacy
February 19, 2019

Comment on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry, Preliminary Report
January 22, 2019

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Privacy, Big Data, and Competition
November 5, 2018

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Reverse-Payment Settlements
October 23, 2018

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy
October 23, 2018

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Platforms
October 15, 2018

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Hearing on Concentration and Competitiveness in the U.S. Economy
September 13, 2018

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Vertical Mergers
September 7, 2018

Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law
September 6, 2018

Comment on the Federative Republic of Brazil, Before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), Draft Guidelines Concerning Antitrust Remedies
June 22, 2018

Comment on the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Public Roundtable Series on Competition and Deregulation, Third Roundtable on Anticompetitive Regulations
May 30, 2018

Comment on the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Public Roundtable Series on the Relationship Between Competition and Regulation, Second Roundtable – On Consent Decrees
April 25, 2018

Comment on the Japan Patent Office (JPO) Guide to Licensing Negotiations Involving Standard Essential Patents
April 9, 2018

Comment on the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Public Roundtable Series on Competition and Deregulation, First Roundtable on State Action, Statutory Exemptions and Implied Immunities
March 13, 2018

Comment on the Dominican Republic’s Resolution on Cartel Leniency
Spanish Translation
February 28, 2018

Comment on the Procompetencia’s Regulations for the Processing of Commitment Proposals by Economic Agents
Spanish Translation
February 28, 2018

For more information on past programs, please visit our Competition Advocacy Program Archives.