M. Howard Morse
M. HOWARD MORSE is an antitrust partner in the Washington, DC
office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and co-chair of the firm's
Antitrust Group. He regularly represents businesses before the
U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in investigations
under the antitrust laws, 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. He concen-trates
particularly on issues confronting high-tech industries and the
interplay between antitrust and intellectual property law.
Before joining Drinker in 1998, Mr. Morse was Assistant Director
of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he
oversaw anti-trust investigations and litigation in a variety
of industries, including the computer hardware and software, chemical,
pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech industries. During
his decade-long tenure at the FTC, Mr. Morse was responsible for
more than 50 enforcement actions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act,
the Clayton Act and the FTC Act.
Mr. Morse currently serves as Chair of the American Bar Association
Section of Antitrust Law Intellectual Property Committee and is
a member of the Section's Pharmaceutical Industry Task Force.
He previously served as chair of the Section's Computer Industry
Committee.
He has contributed to a number of ABA publications includ-ing
Antitrust Law Develo-pments, The Merger Review Process, and The
Federal Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual
Property: Origins and Applications. He has authored articles published
in the Global Competition Review's Antitrust Review of the Americas,
The Business Lawyer, the Corporate Counseling Report, Antitrust
and Intellectual Property, the Computer Industry newsletter, the
ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law Newsletter, and the Food
and Drug Law Institute Update.
Mr. Morse is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College
and cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
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