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W. Stephen Smith W. Stephen Smith

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Primary Office: Washington D.C.

Email: ssmith@mofo.com
Phone: (202) 887-1514
Fax: (202) 887-0763

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Legal Updates & News
09/17/2007   Court of First Instance Confirms Microsoft Violated EU Competition Rules
09/12/2007   Third Circuit Finds False FRAND Commitments Actionable Under the Antitrust Laws
06/28/2007   Supreme Court Overturns Long-Standing Per Se Rule Against Vertical Minimum Price-Fixing
05/21/2007   Bell Atlantic Corp v. Twombly: The Supreme Court Raises Pleading Standards for Allegations of Antitrust Conspiracies
04/17/2007   The Wait Is Over: FTC and DOJ Issue Their Long-Anticipated Report on Antitrust Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights
02/20/2007   Supreme Court’s Weyerhaeuser Decision Applies Stringent Standard to Predatory Bidding
Court holds that the same stringent standard used to judge the lawfulness of predatory pricing must be applied to claims of predatory bidding as well
12/08/2006   High Court Antitrust Trend Continues — Two New Cases Granted
10/04/2006   Fall 2006 Supreme Court Preview: Antitrust
08/17/2006   Trio Of Antitrust Rulings Reversing Liability
08/02/2006   Overview of FTC's Rambus Decision
06/08/2006   DOJ and FTC Monopoly Conduct Hearings to Begin June 20
04/03/2006   DOJ and FTC Request Comments on Monopoly Conduct
03/28/2006   U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Agencies Issue Commentary Clarifying Application of Merger Guidelines
03/16/2006   FTC Settles Complaint Alleging Company Attempted to Use Analyst Call to Collude with Competitor
02/28/2006   Supreme Court Narrows Scope of Potential Liability for Joint Ventures Under Antitrust Laws
01/17/2006   New Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Notification Thresholds
01/10/2006   Supreme Court Declines to Find Robinson-Patman Act Violation in Case Involving Special-Order Products
12/02/2005   DOJ and FTC to Hold Joint Hearings on Single-Firm Conduct
06/03/2005   JFTC Refers Bridge Construction Bid-Rigging Case to Public Prosecutors Office for Criminal Indictment
04/21/2005   Amendments to Japanese Anti Monopoly Act: Japan Significantly Strengthens Its Antitrust Laws
03/10/2005   JFTC Challenges Intel's Rebate and Marketing Programs: Key Implications for Doing Business in Japan
02/04/2005   Federal Circuit Reaffirms Rule that Patent Raises Rebuttable Presumption of Market Power
11/05/2004   DOJ Issues Antitrust Merger Remedies Guide
07/02/2004   U.S. Supreme Court Limits the Reach of U.S. Antitrust Laws, but Permits U.S. Discovery for Use in Foreign Tribunals
07/01/2004   President Bush Signs New Law Affording Certain Antitrust Protections to Standards Development Organizations


Other Articles
12/12/2007   Federal Enforcement Agencies Finally Speak
09/14/2007   Supreme Court Establishes New Antitrust Standards for Buying Practices
The Corporate Counselor, Volume 22, Number 2, July 2007, reprinted with permission.
07/27/2006   A Roundtable Discussion of Recent Supreme Court Decisions
This article first appeared in the September 2006 issue of The American Lawyer and is reprinted with permission.
06/01/2006   Antitrust Liability For Joint Ventures: The Lessons of Texaco Inc. v. Dagher
05/01/2006   Good News, Bad News, or No News? The U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Agencies' Commentary on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
<span>Originally published in The M&A Lawyer, Vol. 10, No. 5 (May 2006); © West Legalworks</span>
04/01/2005   Can A Fully Integrated Joint Venture Be Per Se Unlawful? The Ninth Circuit's Decision in Dagher
Can A Fully Integrated Joint Venture Be Per Se Unlawful? The Ninth Circuit's Decision in Dagher," Antitrust magazine, Spring 2005. Reprinted from Antitrust magazine, Spring 2005, a publication of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or downloaded or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express consent of the American Bar Association