Publications
Read the amicus curiae brief of the Open Markets Institute in UFCW v. Novartis here. The class action monopolization suit alleges that, in order to keep its monopoly over the cancer treatment drug Gleevec, Novartis illegally obtained a patent by submitting false information about the drug's active ingredient to the Patent Office.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan testified at the Federal Trade Commission’s Second Hearing in its “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” series at the Constitution Center.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted on POLITICO’s Morning Tech on the Federal Trade Commission’s hearing on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.”
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this edition, we ask if the FTC's big series of hearings is just a big waste of public money. And we point out the dangers - and hypocrisies - in the DOJ's approval of the Cigna-Express Scripts merger.
Read MoreThe Open Markets team strongly supports Senator Warren’s call to separate the business of retailing from the business of making things.
Read MoreLast week, a coalition of farmers, fishermen, and food system activists launched a new campaign that calls on three dominant food service management companies, Aramark, Compass Group, and Sodexo, to increase local and humane food purchasing, invest in racial equity, and reduce their carbon emissions, among other demands. These companies represent 77.5 percent of the food service management industry, or the business of running cafeterias and restaurants for hospitals, schools, stadiums, corporate headquarters, and other institutions.
Read MoreOpen Markets senior fellow Lina Khan is profiled by David Streitfield for The New York Times. Khan talks about her work on antitrust, Amazon and how she went against a consensus in antitrust circles that dates back to the 1970s.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we look at how the Trump Administration is helping Big Tech, and highlight how Spotify and other music platforms hurt musicians - and listeners.
Read MoreSince roughly 2009, Americans may have been paying too much for their pork chops, barbeque, hams, and trotters. That’s the claim of two law firms that filed separate class action suits on behalf of consumers and food distributors charging eight major pork packers and an industry data sharing service, Agri Stats, with colluding to manipulate prices.
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