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Antitrust Basics
Presenter: David Ostfeld
14 December 2010
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Overview:

The Sherman Act, the Clayton Act and the Robinson-Patman Act are the principal antitrust statutes signed into law in the United States. The focus of this webinar will be to provide a review of these statutes so entrepreneurs can build upon their basic knowledge of antitrust law. Topics discussed will include:

  • Price fixing
  • Unlawful tying arrangements
  • Monopolization
  • Criminal and civil remedies

Please join us for what is to be a very informative webinar.

Presenter Biography:

David M. Ostfeld, an attorney with Strasburger & Price, LLP in Houston, has represented clients for more than 30 years. His areas of specialty include: intellectual property, international transactions, domestic transactions, antitrust and anti-competition issues, customs, export regulation, contract transactions, technology agreements and franchise law matters.

Ostfeld has given testimony and advice to the U.S. Trade Representative, various committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the White House, the U.S. Patent Office and the U. S. Departments of Commerce, State, Energy and Justice concerning competitiveness, technology and intellectual property issues for the United States. He is an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and the International Chamber of Commerce.

For 10 years, he was a practicing engineer, working for Tenneco, Inc. Fluor and Union Carbide.

Ostfeld received his Juris Doctorate, summa cum laude from South Texas School of Law in 1972. While in law school, he was a member of Law Review. He received his bachelor of arts degree in physics (1963), bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering (1964) and master of science, summa cum laude, in control systems engineering (1965) from Washington University in St. Louis.

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