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Howard Morse is a partner and co-chair of Drinker Biddle's Antitrust practice. He regularly represents businesses before the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and State Attorneys General, in investigations involving mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures as well as alleged monopolization and restraint of trade cases. He also counsels clients on antitrust issues and represents companies in private antitrust litigation. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Howard served as assistant director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, where he was responsible for antitrust investigations and litigation in a broad range of industries, including the computer hardware and software, chemical, pharmaceutical, medical device and auto parts industries.
Federal Trade Commission. During Howard's decade-long tenure at the FTC, he served as a staff attorney and as deputy assistant director for policy before becoming assistant director. While assistant director, Howard was named to the government's senior executive service. He also served as a special attorney to the U.S. Attorney General.
Litigation. Howard is experienced in federal court and administrative litigation in antitrust matters, as well as government antitrust investigations. At the FTC, he was responsible for more than 50 enforcement actions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, the Clayton Act and the FTC Act. At Drinker Biddle, Howard has guided clients' mergers and acquisitions through government review and encouraged government challenges to other transactions on behalf of clients. He has also represented plaintiffs, defendants and third parties in antitrust litigation. Major clients that Howard has represented include Cinram International, Inc., Delphi Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Johnson & Johnson, Lehman Brothers, McKinsey & Company, Schering-Plough Corporation and T-Mobile, Inc.
High-Tech Industries, Innovation, and Intellectual Property. Howard has been at the forefront of applying antitrust law to the high technology sector and the growing intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law. He has played a leading role in the development of government thinking about innovation markets, network effects, and the role of efficiencies in merger analysis.
In General. Howard is a member of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section Council and is a past chair of the Section’s Intellectual Property and Computer Industry Committees. He is also vice chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association Antitrust and Competition Law Committee. He testified before the DOJ/FTC hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy.
Howard has recently published articles on "Product Market Definition in the Pharmaceutical Industry" in the Antitrust Law Journal, on "Settlement of Intellectual Property Disputes in the Pharmaceutical Industry" in the George Mason Law Review, on "Standard Setting and Antitrust" in the IP Litigator and on "Mergers and Acquisitions: Antitrust Limitations on Conduct Before Closing" in The Business Lawyer. He has contributed to ABA publications including Antitrust Law Developments, Mergers and Acquisitions, The Merger Review Process, and The Federal Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. He has been a featured speaker at programs of the ABA, the Practising Law Institute, the Computer Law Association, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and the Food & Drug Law Institute. Howard has also served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught a seminar on current developments in antitrust law. Howard is listed in "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in American Law" and is identified as a top antitrust lawyer in the 2007 Washington DC Super Lawyers and in the Legal Media Group's Expert Guides to the World's Leading Lawyers. | 