ANTITRUST POLICY related term(s) Monopolies

Amendments

FTC: prohibit anticompetitive use of patents, known as product hopping, by drug product manufacturers (S. 150), S4537, S4737 [11JY]

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: permit voluntary economic coordination, cooperation, agreement, or other association, compact, contract, or covenant entered into by or between any individual or group of individuals (see S. 4290), S3597 [8MY]

——— reform antitrust laws to protect competition, modify standard for unlawful acquisitions, deter anticompetitive exclusionary practices, and enhance ability of Federal agencies to enforce antitrust laws (see S. 4308), S3654 [9MY]

FTC: prohibit anticompetitive use of patents, known as product hopping, by drug product manufacturers (see H.R. 9070), H4640 [18JY]

——— prohibit use of algorithmic systems to artificially inflate price or reduce supply of leased or rented residential dwelling units (see S. 3692), S287 [30JA] (see H.R. 8622), H3672 [5JN]

——— transfer antitrust enforcement to Dept. of Justice (see H.R. 7737), H1294 [20MR]

Mexico: raise concern about proposed constitutional reforms (see H. Res. 1435), H5156 [10SE]

Pharmaceuticals: prohibit pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies from being under common ownership (see S. 5503), S7002 [12DE] (see H.R. 10362), H7111 [11DE]

Real estate: modify premerger notification requirements relative to certain acquisitions of residential property (see S. 4620), S4180 [20JN]

——— provide antitrust exemptions for State licensed real estate brokers or their salespersons or any trade association regulated and licensed by States to which they may belong (see H.R. 9452), H5026 [3SE]

Remarks in House

Business and industry: impact of anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions on consumer markets and supply chains, H6146–H6152 [20NO]

FTC: make hospital organizations and cooperative hospital service organizations subject to antitrust enforcement relative to unfair methods of competition (H.R. 2890), H6148 [20NO]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources, S1101–S1104 [5MR]

Courts: prevent transfer of actions arising under antitrust laws in which State is complainant, S1102 [5MR]

Dept. of Justice: Antitrust Division funding, S2268, S2269 [7MR]

Financial institutions: proposed merger of Discover Financial Services (company) and Capital One Financial Corp., S2630 [8AP], S2678 [10AP]

FTC: call for investigation into oil company mergers, S2220 [6MR]

——— call for investigation into oil company price fixing and collusion, S3916 [3JN]

——— prohibit anticompetitive use of patents, known as product hopping, by drug product manufacturers (S. 150), S4537 [11JY]

Information technology: prohibit certain discriminatory conduct by covered platforms (S. 2033), S1103 [5MR]

News media: provide temporary safe harbor from antitrust laws for publishers of online content to collectively negotiate with dominant online platforms about terms on which their content may be distributed (S. 1094), S1102 [5MR]

Texts of

S. 150, Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act, S4537 [11JY]