Antitrust Resources

CCIA Series on Competition, Innovation and Consumer Choice

• Oct. 27, 2009 event: "Competition Policy As Innovation Policy"
• White Paper: Robert Willig, Jonathan Orszag and Gilad Levin, "An Economic Perspective on the Antitrust Case Against Intel," October 2009
• White Paper: Jeff Gould, "Making Social Security’s Citizen Database Safe for the Future," November 5, 2009
  

Letters & Testimony

• Letter to Asst. Attorney General Christine Varney on the proposed Ticketmaster-Live Nation transaction
  

CCIA's involvement in Antitrust Modernization Commission:

• CCIA's Filing on Antitrust and the New Economy
• CCIA's Filing on Patents, Competition and the New Economy
• AMC's Final Recommendations

CCIA's involvement in US v. Microsoft:

Tunney Act
CCIA participated in the Tunney Act phase of the Microsoft trial. This hearing was to determine if the settlement was in the public interest, and is currently on appeal.
CCIA's three-part Tunney Act submission.

• Economic Analyis by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz
• Legal Analysis
• Political Analysis

CCIA briefs in Microsoft trial

• Brief at Tunney Act Hearing Appeal
• Motion to Appeal Tunney Act ruling
• Amicus Brief in Tunney Act hearing
• Amicus Brief on remedies in initial District Court case

EU Case Against Microsoft:

• Microsoft's Approach to Disclosures of XML File Formats for Word 2003 and Excel 2003
• Letter sent to Secretary of State Powell urging no intervention
• Letter sent to Trade Representative Zoellick urging no intervention
• EU decision against Microsoft
• Summary of CCIA's XP complaint