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Criterion’s experts are internationally recognized authorities on antitrust law and economics. Courts and regulators that have cited our experts’ work include the Supreme Court of the United States, the European Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission.

Criterion experts have played a central role in evaluating the merits of large high-tech mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. We have provided expert analysis of major disputes regarding vertical as well as horizontal restraints of trade. Criterion offers unique expertise at the nexus of antitrust, innovation, and intellectual property. One of us edits the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, the preeminent scholarly journal on antitrust law, published by the Oxford University Press.

Representative engagements undertaken by Criterion experts have included:

  • Testimony and presentations concerning market power, competitive effects, and efficiency defenses in many merger cases, including Oracle-PeopleSoft, XM-Sirius, PECO Energy-PSEG, DirecTV-EchoStar, Deutsche Telekom- VoiceStream, and Bell Atlantic-GTE
  • Amicus cert petition and brief successfully urging the Supreme Court in linkLine to abolish the price squeeze as an antitrust cause of action where no duty to deal exists
  • Competitive analysis and briefings for DG Competition in the Deutsche Post predatory pricing case
  • Antitrust liability and remedies questions for Microsoft in United States v. Microsoft
  • Landmark standards-setting litigation, including Rambus and Unocal
  • The following multidistrict litigation proceedings:
    • Carbon Dioxide Industry Antitrust Litigation (MDL 940)
    • Crude Oil Litigation (MDL 150)
    • Disposable Contact Lens Litigation (MDL 1030)
    • High Pressure Laminates Antitrust Litigation (MDL 1368)
    • Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation (MDL 997)
    • Infant Formula Antitrust Litigation (MDL 878)
    • Lease Oil Antitrust Litigation (MDL 1206)

Related Publications:

J. Gregory Sidak & David J. Teece, "Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Law," Journal of Competition Law & Economics (forthcoming).

J. Gregory Sidak, "Google and the Proper Antitrust Scrutiny of Orphan Books," 5 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 411 (2009), co-authored with Jerry A. Hausman.

J. Gregory Sidak, "Patent Holdup and Oligopsonistic Collusion in Standard Setting Organizations," 5 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 123 (2009).

J. Gregory Sidak, "Abolishing the Price Squeeze as a Theory of Antitrust Liability," 4 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 279 (2008).

J. Gregory Sidak, "Holdup, Royalty Stacking, and the Presumption of Injunctive Relief for Patent Infringement: A Reply to Lemley and Shapiro," 92 Minnesota Law Review 713 (2008).

Brief of Amici Curiae Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of the Petitioners, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, No. 07-512 (filed Nov. 16, 2007) (brief on behalf of William J. Baumol, Robert H. Bork, Robert W. Crandall, George Daly, Harold Demsetz, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Kenneth G. Elzinga, Gerald Faulhaber, Franklin M. Fisher, Charles J. Goetz, Robert Hahn, Jerry A. Hausman, Thomas M. Jorde, Robert E. Litan, Paul W. MacAvoy, J. Gregory Sidak, Pablo T. Spiller, and Daniel F. Spulber).

J. Gregory Sidak, "Should Antitrust Consent Decrees Regulate Post-Merger Pricing?," 3 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 471 (2007), co-authored with Farrell Malone.

J. Gregory Sidak, "Evaluating Market Power Using Competitive Benchmark Prices Instead of the Hirschman-Herfindahl Index," 74 Antitrust Law Journal 387 (2007), co-authored with Jerry A. Hausman.

J. Gregory Sidak, "A Consumer-Welfare Approach to Network Neutrality Regulation of the Internet," 2 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 349 (2006).

J. Gregory Sidak, "Competition Law for State-Owned Enterprises," 71 Antitrust Law Journal 479 (2003), co-authored with David E. M. Sappington.

J. Gregory Sidak, "Does Bell Company Entry into Long-Distance Telecommunications Benefit Consumers?," 70 Antitrust Law Journal 463 (2002), co-authored with Gregory K. Leonard and Jerry A. Hausman.

J. Gregory Sidak, "Antitrust Divestiture in Network Industries," 68 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2001), co-authored with Howard A. Shelanski.

J. Gregory Sidak, "An Antitrust Rule for Software Integration," 18 Yale Journal on Regulation 1 (2001).

J. Gregory Sidak & David J. Teece, "Innovation, Investment, and Unbundling," 17 Yale Journal on Regulation 1 (2000), co-authored with Thomas M. Jorde.

J. Gregory Sidak, "Essential Facilities," 51 Stanford Law Review 1185 (1999), co-authored with Abbott B. Lipsky, Jr. Spanish translation republished as "Facilidades esenciales," 27 Ius Et Veritas 126 (2004).

J. Gregory Sidak, "Debunking Predatory Innovation," 83 Columbia Law Review 1121 (1983).