Posts in Testimony & Comment Letters
Open Markets, Authors Guild, and PEN America Sign Letter Calling DOJ to Block Merger of Dominant Printers

The letter, signed by Open Markets, the Authors Guild, PEN America, and addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, explains how the combination of Quad and LSC is a merger-to-monopoly in the long-run magazine printing market and an anticompetitive merger in the book printing market.

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Open Markets, Public Knowledge, and Others Send Letter to House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce Cmtts Against Proposed Merger of Sprint, T-Mobile

Open Markets Institute, Public Knowledge and twelve other signatories have sent a comment letter to the House Judiciary Committee and Committee on Energy and Commerce urging the House of Representatives to hold a hearing on the likely effects of the proposed Sprint, T-Mobile merger.

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Open Markets Calls on International Trade Commission to Check Qualcomm's Monopoly Power

The Open Markets Institute co-signed a letter written by Public Knowledge calling on the International Trade Commission to uphold an administrative law judge's decision to reject Qualcomm's request to ban certain iPhone models from American markets. Qualcomm claims that these models use baseband technology from competitor Intel and infringes on Qualcomm's patents.

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Representatives Jerrold Nadler and David Cicilline Quote from Open Markets Letter in House Debate on H.R. 5645

Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and David Cicilline (D-RI) quoted Open Markets when they spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 against H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Review Through Equal Rules Act of 2018.

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Open Markets Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Regarding H.R. 5645

We write to express concern about H.R. 5645—Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018. After close review, the Open Markets Institute has concluded that the bill would dangerously reduce the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to protect American citizens from concentrations of power that threaten them politically and economically. Worse, it would do so exactly at a moment when we need a stronger and more active FTC. A broad, bi-partisan consensus acknowledges that America has a big monopoly problem.

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