After some cries that the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division had failed to improve on an enforcement record President Barack Obama called the worst in decades, the DoJ has brought two major enforcement matters in the past month – and there may be more to come. Ron Knox in Washington, DC.

Commissioner William Kovacic of the US Federal Trade Commission yesterday made a rousing argument for why the agency must change its approach to Section 5 cases if it hopes to succeed in court. Ron Knox at the Fall Forum in Washington, DC

The US Federal Trade Commission says that German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim has refused to respond to subpoenas sent as part of an investigation of whether the company violated section 5 of the FTC Act when it paid a rival to end patent litigation.

The US Chamber of Commerce has released a paper saying it opposes the Federal Trade Commission’s use of section 5 of the FTC act without giving proper guidance to the private sector.