Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley analyzes the ways in which antitrust enforcement plays a role in the structure of fair market competition.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement in reaction to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcing its long-awaited suit against Amazon’s monopoly power and abuse.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case of Illumina v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the Fifth Circuit to deny a petition for review in the case.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about the competition problem between large drug companies and their domination over lower-cost rivals using a tactic known as “pay for delay”.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes an article regarding Activision Blizzard being blocked by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority and how vertical mergers are affected with repercussions.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley discusses market definition and its prevalence in antitrust litigation.
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The Open Markets Institute today led a coalition of fifty civil society groups that urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses as well as functionally equivalent restraints.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes on the methods used by companies that spread beyond the utilization of noncompete clauses.
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Claire Kelloway, food program director , and Jason Davidson, senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth, collaborate in this policy brief revealing the reality farmers face in the midst of carbon markets and the presence of Big Ag.
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Sen. Warren delineated four priorities for the administrative branch of government: break up the giants, stop harmful mergers to prevent new giants from emerging, stop the anticompetitive practices (tricks) that giant corporations use to reinforce their economic and political power, and put the executives who violate antitrust law behind bars.
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“The Wall Street Journal has finally confirmed that Google engineers search results to serve its own private interests and those of big advertisers and other giant corporations,” said Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn. “It’s way past time for our federal and state governments to fix Google.”
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The Open Markets Institute filed a comment to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) exposing how manufacturers - of everything from cellphones to tractors – monopolize markets for parts and service, shutting out independent technicians, driving up repair costs, and sending more goods to landfills.
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“Corporations are using dirty tricks to control and restrict repair in virtually every industry, from consumer electronics and appliances, to agriculture, even the military," said Claire Kelloway, Open Markets Food and Power reporter. "The FTC has the authority to break up these repair monopolies, and we hope they step in to do what’s right for consumers, small businesses, and the planet.”
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Open Markets Institute calls on U.S. anti-monopoly enforcers to block EssilorLuxottica’s nearly $8 billion acquisition of GrandVision. The deal would mean even higher prices for glasses - which are already far too expensive - and would further limit real choice over where Americans can get their eyewear.
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The Open Markets Institute led a coalition of public interest groups and academics in demanding the Department of Justice block the proposed merger of Cengage and McGraw Hill.
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The Open Markets Institute submitted a statement for the record before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship on July 16, 2019.
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The Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represents Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and other national retailers, wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission last week demanding that the FTC examine “persistent oligopolies in other parts of the retail ecosystem.”
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Villages v. FTC, one of two cases that challenge the FTC’s landmark prohibition on non-compete clauses.
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The Open Markets Institute and Mozilla published a comprehensive report titled "Stop Big Tech from Becoming Big AI: A Roadmap for Using Competition Policy to Keep Artificial Intelligence Open for All.”
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway weighed in on the USDA’s latest actions to improve fair competition in food and agriculture -- actions heavily informed by Open Markets' scholarship.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley outlines 25 characteristics that exemplary legislation from Congress should include to effectuate a vigorous antitrust enforcement policy.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan put out a statement on the final 2023 merger guidelines from the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
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The Open Markets Institute welcomed the announcement that gene sequencing company Illumina will sell cancer test developer Grail following inquiries from antitrust regulators.
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Statement in response to Google violating California and federal antitrust laws, stifling competition by removing other publishers like Epic Games from its Play mobile app store.
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Open Markets has released two complementary papers on the Robinson-Patman Act that show how we can once again enforce the law to rein in the buyer power of the nation’s largest corporations in retail and manufacturing and stop them from squeezing their smaller suppliers.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes an illuminating article on how antimonopoly has been a fundamental aspect of much of the federal regulation since the founding of the United States.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch highlights the internal developments of OpenAI and the confrontations between the firm and Microsoft’s poaching practices.
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On November 15, Open Markets Institute and AI Now Institute convened leading experts from the United States and Europe for a wide-ranging discussion about the promise, threats, and regulatory challenges of large scale artificial intelligence (AI).
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The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty publish a report how just a handful of Big Tech companies – by exploiting existing monopoly power and aggressively co-opting other actors – have already positioned themselves to control the future of artificial intelligence and magnify many of the worst problems of the digital age.
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