Koren W. Wong-Ervin

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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 500 domestic and international events.

Since 2009, Koren has held numerous leadership positions within the ABA Antitrust Section, currently serving as technology officer. 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.

担当案件

  • ETSY sells Reverb to Creator Partners and ServcoJones Day acted as Antitrust counsel to Etsy, Inc. in connection with its sale of Reverb to Creator Partners and Servco.
  • 出版物情報

    • June 25, 2025
      Antitrust Antidote: March-June 2025; Network Law Review
    • June 2025
      Dynamic Competition and Antitrust: Quick-Look Inferences from the Analysis of Big Tech’s R&D Expenditure Ratios, submitted to ALJ’s Symposium Beyond Dynamic Competition; Antitrust Law Journal
    • April 14, 2025
      Antitrust Antidote: January – March 2025; Network Law Review
    • December 27, 2024
      Antitrust Antidote: October - December 2024, Network Law Review
    • November 18, 2024
      FTC v. Rambus and the DeFacto Causation Standard Under Sherman Section 2, Competition Policy International
    • October 14, 2024
      Antitrust Antidote: June - September 2024, Network Law Reveiw
    • March 1, 2024
      Antitrust Antidote: December 2023-February 2024, Network Law Review

    Select Publications Prior to Jones Day

    December 2022
    The FTC's New Unfair Methods of Competition Policy Statement: To What Extent Will the Approach Survive in Court?, Competition Policy International

    December 2022
    Acquisitions of Potential Competitors: The U.S. Approach and Calls for Reform, Competition Law and Policy Debate

    October 21, 2021
    Extraterritoriality: Approaches Around the World and Model Analysis, Concurrences Eleanor M. Fox Liber Amicorum

    May 21, 2020
    Challenging Consummated Mergers Under Section 2, Competition Policy International

    May 14, 2020
    AmEx: Beyond Transaction Platforms and Section 1, Competition Policy International

    May 6, 2020
    The Risk of Radicalism: Exacerbating Harms from Type I Errors, Competition Policy International

    January 26, 2020
    Assessing Monopoly Power or Dominance in Platform Markets, ABA Antitrust Section Economics Committee Newsletter

    January 22, 2020
    U.S. Vertical Merger Guidelines: Recommendations and Thoughts on EDM and Merger Specificity, Competition Policy International

    Fall 2019
    Antitrust Analysis Involving Intellectual Property and Standards: Implications from Economics, Harv. J.L. & Tech Vol. 33, No. 1 (Fall 2019), Winner 2019 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards

    June 6, 2019
    Licensing of IP Rights and Competition Law, OECD Competition Committee Paper for Roundtable

    Spring 2019
    The 2018 FTC Hearings on IP & Innovation: Key Testimony, Economic Learnings, and Recommendations for Further Study, Antitrust Magazine

    February 2019
    Antitrust Analysis of Vertical Mergers: Recent Developments and Economic Teachings, The Antitrust Source

    October 31, 2018
    Recommendations Following the FTC's October Hearings on IP and Innovation, Competition Policy International

    November 19, 2017
    The Department of Justice's Long-Awaited and Much Needed Course-Correction on FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents, coauthor, Competition Policy International

    November 15, 2017
    IP LeadershIP Brussels: Highlights and Economic Analysis, coauthor, Competition Policy International

    Fall 2017
    FRAND in India, coauthor, Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector: Competition Issues and Standard Essential Patents 

    September 1, 2017
    The Global Antitrust Attack on Intellectual Property Rights and What the U.S. Should Do About It, Forbes

    August 2017
    Righting the Course:  What the DOJ Should Do About the IEEE Business Review Letter, Competition Policy International

    July 10, 2017
    Occupational Licensing Hinders the American Dream, RealClear Policy

    May 10, 2017
    Problems In Proposed Changes To Vietnam’s Competition Law, Law360 

    May 2017
    Problematic Aspects of the Japan Fair Trade Commission’s Proposed Distribution 
    Guidelines, Competition Policy International 

    May 2017
    International Competition Policy Expert Group: Report and Recommendations, Competition Policy International 

    May 2017
    Troubling Aspects of the European Commission’s Standard-Essential Patents Roadmap, Competition Policy International 

    May 2017
    An Update on the Most Recent Version of China’s Anti-Monopoly Guidelines on the Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Policy International 

    April 2017
    Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Abroad: Due Process, Public Interest Factors, and Extra-Jurisdictional Remedies,” Competition Policy International 

    April 2017
    A Comparative and Economic Analysis of the U.S. FTC's Complaint and the Korea FTC's Decision Against Qualcomm, coauthor, Competition Policy International

    2017
    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

    2017
    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.

    2017
    Tying And Bundling Involving Standard-Essential Patients, co-authored, 24 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1091

    December 2016
    Extra-Jurisdictional Remedies Involving Patent Licensing, coauthor, Competition Policy International

    September 2016
    Comments on the U.S. Antitrust Agencies’ Proposed Updated IP Guidelines, coauthor, Competition Policy International
     
    Fall 2016
    Monetary Penalties in China and Japan, coauthor, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Cartel & Criminal Practice Committee Newsletter (ABA Section of Antitrust Law) 

    March 2016
    Excessive Royalty’ Prohibitions and the Dangers of Punishing Vigorous Competition and Harming Incentives to Innovate, coauthor, Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle 

    2016
    Standard-Essential Patents and Market Power, coauthor, World Competition Day

    2016
    Intellectual Property and Standard Setting, coauthor, 17 Federalist Society R. 52

    December 15, 2015
    An Update On China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Guidelines On IP, Law360 

    December 14, 2015
    Product Hopping and the Limits of Antitrust: The Danger of Micromanaging Innovation, coauthor, Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, Vol. 12, No. 1

    October 2015
    The Troubling Use of Antitrust to Regulate FRAND Licensing, coauthor, Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle Vol. 10 No. 1

    March 2015
    An Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Ericsson v. D-Link, coauthor, Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle Vol. 3 No. 1

    January 2015
    Problems with the European Commission’s Platform Survey and Lessons Learned from the Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms and Privacy, coauthor, Competition Policy International 

    October 8-10, 2014
    Methodologies for Calculating FRAND Royalty Rates and Damages: An Analysis of Existing Case Law, Parts 1-3, coauthor, Law360

    August 2014
    Procedural Fairness and the Importance of Focusing Solely on Competition Factors in Competition Analysis, International Antitrust Bulletin (ABA Section of Antitrust Law)

    July 10, 2014 
    FRAND Ambush?, Law360

    Spring 2014 
    Standard-Essential Patents: The International Landscape, Public Domain (ABA Section of Antitrust Law)
     
    May 2014
    Seven Months In: The U.S. Antitrust Agencies’ Joint Model Waiver of Confidentiality, coauthor, International Antitrust Bulletin (ABA Section of Antitrust Law)

    June 2013
    Does Aspen Skiing Apply to Intellectual Property Rights? Intellectual Property Committee Newsletter (ABA Section of Antitrust Law) 

    • April 29, 2025
      The Google Ad Tech Case: Legal and Business Implications for Virginia Technology
    • April 18, 2025
      Unfair Competition Enforcement Going Forward, presented before ABA Section of Antitrust Law, with Elizabeth Odette and Henry Liu
    • April 3, 2025
      Have We Been Doing It All Wrong? Chair's Showcase American Bar Association Spring Meeting
    • April 1, 2025
      The Future of Antitrust Enforcement & Policy, Concurrences, co-moderated with Jorge Padilla
    • January 27, 2025
      What Do Enforcers Say? A Global Perspective on Antitrust Issues Involving Cloud Computing & Infrastructure, American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section podcast
    • January 17, 2025
      Substance Over Slogans: Strengthening the Foundations of Antitrust, International Center for Law & Economics
    • December 9, 2024
      Antitrust Issues Involving Cloud Infrastructure & Computing: A Global Perspective, moderator, American Bar Association
    • November 11, 2024
      Recent U.S. Antitrust Developments, China University of Political Law & Science
    • 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
    • September 5, 2024
      What a Healthy AdTech Market Looks Like and How to Provide Opportunity for Other Tech Players, Media Companies
    • 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
    • November 7, 2023
      Trinko & Refusals to Deal, Antitrust 101 Podcast
    • July 1, 2023
      Recent Developments in Monopolization Law & Economics, NERA's Annual Antitrust Economics Conference

    Select Speaking Engagements Prior to Jones Day

    July 10, 2023
    Noncompete Bans, Partial Bans, and Reasonableness, ABA Antitrust Section

    March 29, 2023
    Not Your Average SEP and FRAND Panel, 71st Annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting

    February 27, 2023
    A Biden Administration Antitrust Midterm Report Card, TPI Antitrust Conference

    December 8, 2022
    Competition in Labor Markets: What Antitrust Has to Do with That?, Concurrences, Global Antitrust Economics Conference

    September 16, 2022
    Fireside Chat with FTC Chair Lina Khan, Fordham Competition Law Institute's 49th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy

    April 8, 2022
    Antitrust and SEPs: What's Next?, 70th Annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting

    February 21-25, 2022
    25 Years of Antitrust, George Mason Law Review 25th Annual Antitrust Symposium

    September 8, 2020
    Challenging Consummated Mergers Under Section 2, Concurrences

    June 4, 2020
    The concept of potential competition, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Roundtable

    June 6, 2019
    Licensing of IP Rights & Competition Law, OECD

    June 29, 2017
    Recent Trends in International Antitrust Enforcement, Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

    August 19, 2015
    Testimony before the Commonwealth of Virginia Certificate of Public Need (COPN) Workgroup

    March 28, 2014
    Retreat from Trinko?, 62nd Annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting