Koren Wong-Ervin has more than 20 years of experience in government, private practice, and as in-house counsel, including representing defendants and plaintiffs in high-stakes litigations and representing companies in domestic and foreign merger and conduct investigations. While at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Koren served as an Attorney Advisor to a Commissioner and as Counsel for Intellectual Property & International Antitrust. She is a recognized thought leader who has testified before Congress on domestic and international antitrust issues.
The combination of Koren's experience representing defendants, along with her experience at the FTC and as a former plaintiffs class action lawyer, gives her insights into the thinking on both sides of cases, allowing her to develop effective offensive and defensive strategies. Her in-house experience as the Director of Antitrust Litigation & Policy at a major technology company gives her a first-hand understanding of how companies work and unique insight into the needs of clients. Koren also has a deep understanding of economics and has trained more than 500 foreign judges and enforcers on a variety of economic topics.
Koren's scholarship has been cited by courts and the Department of Justice (DOJ). She has authored more than 70 articles and spoken at more than 300 domestic and international events.
Since 2009, Koren has held numerous leadership positions within the ABA Antitrust Section, currently serving as a member of the Section's governing council. Her prior positions include co-chair of the U.S. Policy & Comments Task Force and editorial board member of the Section's two-volume Antitrust Law Developments treatise. She is also a senior researcher at George Washington University's Institute of Public Policy.
Weitere Veröffentlichungen
- March 1, 2024
Antitrust Antidote: December 2023-February 2024, Network Law Review
Select Publications Prior to Jones Day
The FTC's New Unfair Methods of Competition Policy Statement: To What Extent Will the Approach Survive in Court?, Competition Policy International
Acquisitions of Potential Competitors: The U.S. Approach and Calls for Reform, Competition Law and Policy Debate
Extraterritoriality: Approaches Around the World and Model Analysis, Concurrences Eleanor M. Fox Liber Amicorum
Challenging Consummated Mergers Under Section 2, Competition Policy International
AmEx: Beyond Transaction Platforms and Section 1, Competition Policy International
The Risk of Radicalism: Exacerbating Harms from Type I Errors, Competition Policy International
Assessing Monopoly Power or Dominance in Platform Markets, ABA Antitrust Section Economics Committee Newsletter
U.S. Vertical Merger Guidelines: Recommendations and Thoughts on EDM and Merger Specificity, Competition Policy International
Antitrust Analysis Involving Intellectual Property and Standards: Implications from Economics, Harv. J.L. & Tech, Winner 2019 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards
The 2018 FTC Hearings on IP & Innovation: Key Testimony, Economic Learnings, and Recommendations for Further Study, Antitrust Magazine
Antitrust Analysis of Vertical Mergers: Recent Developments and Economic Teachings, The Antitrust Source
Recommendations Following the FTC's October Hearings on IP and Innovation, Competition Policy International
The Department of Justice's Long-Awaited and Much Needed Course-Correction on FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents, coauthor, Competition Policy International
Methodologies for Calculating FRAND Damages: An Economic and Comparative Analysis of the Case Law from China, the European Union, India, and the United States, coauthor, Jindal Global L. Rev. 8 127
A Comparative and Economic Analysis of the U.S. FTC's Complaint and the Korea FTC's Decision Against Qualcomm, coauthor, Competition Policy International
Portfolio Licensing at the End-User Device Level: Analyzing Refusals to License FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents at the Component Level, coauthor, 62 Antitrust Bull.
Standard-Essential Patents and Market Power, coauthor, World Competition Day
Extra-Jurisdictional Remedies Involving Patent Licensing, coauthor, Competition Policy International
Product Hopping and the Limits of Antitrust: The Danger of Micromanaging Innovation, coauthor, Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, Vol. 12, No. 1
Methodologies for Calculating FRAND Royalty Rates and Damages: An Analysis of Existing Case Law, Parts 1-3, coauthor, Law360
- September 30, 2024
The Impact of AI on Antitrust Enforcement and Liability, Fourth Annual IPWatchdog LIVE 2024 - September 27, 2024
Advising the Allegedly Dominant Firm, 2024 ABA Antitrust Section Masters Course - September 12, 2024
Generative AI- Hold Your Horses?, Fordham 51st Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy - August 6-9, 2024
Dynamic Competition, ABA Antitrust Section's Leadership Summit - May 7, 2024
The FTC’s Non-Competes Ban: What Lies Ahead?, ABA Antitrust Section - April 25, 2024
Beyond Dynamic Competition, George Washington University Competition & Innovation Lab - April 9, 2024
Controlling power and conduct by antitrust in a digital/AI world, Antitrust in the Digital Economy, GCR Live - February 23, 2024
Antitrust and Privacy, George Mason Law Review 27th Annual Antitrust Symposium
Select Speaking Engagements Prior to Jones Day
July 10, 2023Noncompete Bans, Partial Bans, and Reasonableness, ABA Antitrust Section
Not Your Average SEP and FRAND Panel, 71st Annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting
A Biden Administration Antitrust Midterm Report Card, TPI Antitrust Conference
Competition in Labor Markets: What Antitrust Has to Do with That?, Concurrences, Global Antitrust Economics Conference
Fireside Chat with FTC Chair Lina Khan, Fordham Competition Law Institute's 49th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy
Antitrust and SEPs: What's Next?, 70th Annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting
25 Years of Antitrust, George Mason Law Review 25th Annual Antitrust Symposium
Challenging Consummated Mergers Under Section 2, Concurrences
The concept of potential competition, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Roundtable
Licensing of IP Rights & Competition Law, OECD
Recent Trends in International Antitrust Enforcement, Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony before the Commonwealth of Virginia Certificate of Public Need (COPN) Workgroup
Retreat from Trinko?, 62nd Annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D. magna cum laude 1999; Order of the Coif; Rank 2/479); Santa Clara University (B.S. in Political Science magna cum laude 1996; Phi Beta Kappa; Rank 4/573)
- District of Columbia and California
- Served with the Federal Trade Commission (2013-2015) in the following positions: Attorney Advisor to a Commissioner and as Counsel for Intellectual Property & International Antitrust
Lawdragon — "500 Leading Litigators in America" (2024, 2025)
Concurrences Writing Awards
Recognized as one of Global Competition Review's (GCR) Notable Women in Antitrust (2016, 2021)
GCR Academic Excellence Award (2016)
40 in their 40s Notable Women Competition Professionals in Europe, the Americas and Africa
Federal Trade Commission Award for Meritorious Service (2015)