Geoff Oliver's practice focuses on antitrust matters, with an emphasis on government merger and conduct investigations and matters involving antitrust and patent law. He represents high-tech and manufacturing companies in the computer, semiconductor, consumer electronics, pharmaceutical, health care, and medical devices industries. He has litigated merger, conduct, and IP-related matters in federal court and in administrative proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the International Trade Commission (USITC). He regularly counsels companies with respect to joint ventures, licensing and distribution agreements, and other commercial arrangements. Geoff co-coordinates the Firm's practice involving application of antitrust law to issues involving intellectual property.
Before joining Jones Day in 2007, Geoff held various positions in the FTC's Bureau of Competition, including assistant director responsible for the Anticompetitive Practices Division. At the FTC, he supervised numerous nonpublic investigations, litigated merger and non-merger cases, and participated in various policy initiatives involving standard-setting, intellectual property, joint ventures, and other issues. Earlier in his career, Geoff practiced in Brussels, Belgium as well as Washington, D.C.
Geoff has written on antitrust enforcement topics and has spoken on antitrust and intellectual property issues in the United States and abroad. He was the lead editor of the ABA Antitrust Section's treatise, Antitrust Issues in International Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions, and formerly served as the chair of the Antitrust Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and on the board of editors of the ABA's Antitrust magazine.
Experience
Speaking Engagements
- October 24, 2013
The FTC's Enforcement Priorities and Reverse-Payment Settlements in Pharma Cases, moderator, Antitrust/ADR/Chemical Substances/Food & Drug Committees, AIPLA Annual Meeting - July 25, 2013
Standard-Essential Patents and Injunctive Relief, New York City Bar Association Antitrust & Trade Regulation Committee - August 2, 2012
Emerging Trends in International Intellectual Property Law - March 30, 2011
Signaling and Invitations to Collude: How to Draw the Lines, ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting - January 26, 2011
Antitrust and IP Licensing, Jones Day MCLE University (Presentation slides) - December 10, 2010
Antitrust Issues in Trade Associations, Presentation to Visiting Delegation of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce (SAIC), P.R.C. - September 21, 2010
Truncated Rule of Reason Analysis in Antitrust Representations, Strafford Webinar - March 25, 2009
Global Competition Review Section 2 Roundtable - December 2, 2008
Antitrust & IP Issues in the New Administration, Internationalen Handelskammer Frankfurt - October 22, 2008
June 25, 2008
Update on Recent Developments Affecting Standards Organizations, ANSI Legal Issues Forum - October 2, 2008
Recent Developments Involving Patent Pools, Law Seminars International - October 2008
Discussion on the application of Section 5 to standard-setting issues, panelist, Section 5 of the FTC Act as a Competition Statute Workshop - May 21, 2008
The Implications of the Rambus Decision, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law - 16 avril 2008
Petit-déjeuner Concurrence, Séminaire Jones Day Paris - April 16, 2008
Recent Trends in U.S. Antitrust Merger Litigation and the Antitrust-Intellectual Property Interface - April 10, 2008
Antitrust Issues in Standard-Setting, ICSCA/American National Standards Institute Conference - January 18, 2008
Antitrust Issues in Standard-Setting, Jones Day University - November 29, 2007
An Introduction To Significant Issues In U.S. Law: A Presentation for a Delegation of Lawyers and Officials from Jiangsu Province, China - November 5, 2007
Litigation Strategies for Standards, Managing Your IP In the Digital Age, Intellectual Property Owners Association - October 11, 2007
Dealing with Government Agencies, Standards Bodies & Patent Pools, Law Seminars International - April 12, 2007
In the Matter of Rambus, Inc., 15th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Fordham University School of Law - March 22, 2007
FTC v. Rambus 2007: Analysis of the Commission's Liability and Remedy Decisions, Practicing Law Institute - August 30, 2006
The FTC's Rambus Decision: Antitrust Lessons Learned, Practicing Law Institute - October 18, 2005
Antitrust Issues in Standard-Setting, Law Seminars International - October 6, 2005
June 15, 2005
Antitrust Issues in Standard-Setting, American National Standards Institute - April 21, 2005
Antitrust Issues in Standard-Setting, ICSCA XII Conference, Industry Cooperation on Standards & Conformity Assessment - January 27, 2005
Antitrust Issues in Standard-Setting, New York Bar Association - April 26, 2002
The Three Tenors: In the Matter of Polygram et al., Section 1 Committee Program, ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting - June 25-27, 2001
Conducting Effective Government Investigations, Mexican Federal Competition Commission - March 14-16, 2000
Recent Enforcement of Section 2 in the United States, Training Program, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation/Partners for Progress - September 29, 1999
Merger Enforcement in High-Tech Industries, High Tech Mergers & Acquisitions, Glasser LegalWorks Seminars
- Cornell University (J.D. magna cum laude with specialization in international law 1985); Harvard University (B.A. in History & Economics cum laude 1979)
- District of Columbia and Massachusetts
- Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition (1998-2007)
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Joseph L. Tauro, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (1985-1986)
- French, German