Publications: Joseph V. Coniglio

If the year ahead in technology and innovation policy lives up to its potential, it could be a consequential one because there is a long list of important issues on the table. Herein, we offer 10 that are on top of our minds.

The EU’s latest antitrust investigation against Google misreads competitive AI markets, risks politicized enforcement, and could heighten transatlantic tensions amid intensifying U.S.–China technological rivalry.

This was likely the inevitable outcome of a highly flawed case that one didn’t need to consult the Delphic Oracle to realize was a loser from the start.

Unfortunately, however complementary the objectives of protecting consumer privacy and promoting competition may be at a high level, complying with several key DMA prohibitions will undermine—not enhance—the privacy goals of the GDPR.

The dominance of antitrust’s old order on the right is probably over, and the battle for the soul of a conservative or “America First” antitrust has begun.

While ITIF commends the CMA for asking whether competition policy is consistent with broader growth and competitiveness goals, in several respects the Discussion Paper appears to condone policies that would run counter to—not ensure—a faster growing and more globally competitive Britain.

Congress’s attention would be far better spent elsewhere than on overhauling American antitrust law with new digital rules.

The neo-Brandeisian movement cleverly repackages Marxist ideology under the guise of antitrust.

Google’s petition in Epic v. Google raises big questions about key antitrust liability and remedial standards, foreshadowing similar arguments on appeal in the DOJ v. Google search case.

ITIF supports most of the proposed updates to the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation—especially those on market share thresholds, data licensing, and technology pools—but warns that the new safe harbour for licensing negotiation groups could enable anticompetitive buyer collusion and protectionist enforcement unless stricter safeguards are added.