TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2021 at 2 PM ET
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Federal and state antitrust lawsuits threaten disruption to Facebook and Google. Apple is battling Epic Games in a California federal court. A new Congress and new Administration threaten legislative and regulatory pressure on the tech titans. New competition policy regulators will be taking office in the months ahead.
We will discuss these competition policy threats with one of the country's leading tech policy and antitrust legal experts, Koren Wong-Ervin. Please join us for this timely and insightful discussion.
** Koren is a partner in the antitrust group at Axinn, Veltrop and Harkrider in Washington, DC. Before joining Axinn, she was the Director of Antitrust & IP Policy & Litigation at Qualcomm Incorporated, a Senior Expert and Researcher at China’s University of International Business and Economics, and an Academic Advisor at China's University of Political Law & Science.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Koren was Director of the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) and an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University; Counsel for Intellectual Property and International Antitrust in the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission; and served as an Attorney Advisor to FTC Commissioner, Joshua Wright. Prior to that, Koren spent almost a decade in private practice, focusing on antitrust litigation and government investigations with a particular focus on issues affecting clients in the technology and financial industries.
She has testified before Congress on domestic and international antitrust issues. She has spoken at over 100 domestic and international events and written dozens of articles on a variety of topics, including the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property, mergers, vertical restraints, platforms, incremental innovations or “product hopping,” optimal penalties, extraterritoriality, methodologies for calculating patent infringement damages, and international due process and convergence.
