The Heritage Foundation hosted a conference on 29 January 2015 that examined the actual effects on the American economy and consumer welfare of six years of Obama Administration antitrust policy. The expert faculty, comprised of current and former top officials from the two leading federal antitrust agencies -- the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) -- discussed international antitrust issues as well as reforms to improve current antitrust policy. Dr. Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Co-Chair of NERA's Communications, Media, and Internet Practice and former Chief of Staff to FTC Chairman Miller, was asked to moderate the FTC panel, which included current Republican FTC Commissioners Maureen Ohlhausen and Joshua Wright. The panel provided guidance on a number of timely topics, including: Section 5 of the FTC Act; FTC enforcement in the intellectual property area; whether the FTC's injunctive standard should be harmonized with the DOJ's; FTC study of patent trolls; FTC antitrust disgorgement authority; whether there should be one or two federal antitrust agencies; competition advocacy and challenges to state regulations; state antitrust enforcement; and FTC consumer protection activities.

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