Publications: Joseph V. Coniglio

This episode of the Creative Discussion podcast features a recent debate between ITIF's Joseph V. Coniglio and Joel Thayer of the Digital Progress Institute on the question of whether the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) would help or hurt innovation and consumer choice. The debate was moderated by veteran tech journalist Nancy Scola and is re-aired here with no substantive edits.

Draft Amendments to Decree 35 appear premature and may have to be reassessed following the outcome of the broader reforms being considered for the Competition Law.

ITIF responded to a market study on qualitative and quantitative thresholds for Big Tech companies and Core Digital Services (CDS).

Rather than resort to heavy-handed content and price regulation to address nonexistent market failures, the CMA should follow the lead of the United States and rely on a tried-and-true, ex post law enforcement framework to address concerns about anticompetitive behavior associated with anti-steering practices by Apple and Google.

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts retired Jones Day partner and former DOJ Antitrust Division leader Joe Sims, who recounts how he discovered antitrust in law school, explains the origins and impact of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and forecasts diminished FTC antitrust authority.

If AWS and Azure are designated under the DMA, the law’s intentional targeting of U.S. tech platforms will be almost impossible to hide.

While ITIF believes that the New Draft Merger Guidelines have many features that will significantly improve merger enforcement in Europe, there remain a number of areas where the guidelines can and should be substantially improved.

The Draft Law is contrary to Vietnam’s goals of both fostering homegrown innovation and deepening its techno-economic partnership with the United States.

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts Robert H. Bork Jr., president of the Antitrust Education Project, to discuss his book The New Paradox: Antitrust and the Threat of Conservative Socialism. They cover what’s happening now in antitrust policy, Trump-era antitrust continuity, and why antitrust is the wrong tool for speech issues.

ITIF believes that in many important respects the Draft Guidance appears to broadly track the EU’s own revised technology transfer guidance (Revised EU Guidance) on technology pools in a largely unproblematic way but rightly declines to follow the Revised EU Guidance’s discussion of the competitive analysis involving licensing negotiation groups.