Anthony Chavez, is Counsel with ExxonMobil Chemical Company, in the company's intellectual property licensing group. In previous assignments he has coordinated antitrust compliance programs; handled regulatory filings in the United States, the European Union, and a number of other jurisdictions; directed complex antitrust cases; and responded to government investigations.
Mr. Chavez has written and lectured on legal topics relating primarily to antitrust analysis of joint ventures, compliance programs, trade secrets, and white collar crime.
He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Houston Bar Association. He currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section. Previously, he served as a Vice Chair of the Corporate Counseling Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section (1998-2000). He established web pages for the Corporate Counseling Committee and the Intellectual Property Committee. For the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section of the Houston Bar Association, he served as Chair (1997-1998); Vice Chair (1996-1997); Secretary/Treasurer (1995-1996); and Council Member (1993-1995).
He earned his J.D. in 1981 from Stanford University and his B.A. in 1977 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is admitted to practice before the bars of the states of California, New York and Texas, the United States Supreme Court, and United States District Courts in California (Central, Northern, and Southern Districts), New York (Eastern and Southern Districts), and Texas (Northern, Southern Districts, and Western).
Richard Gilbert is Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 1995 he was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led a task force that developed joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Before serving in the Department of Justice, he was the Director of the University of California Energy Institute and Associate Editor of The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Journal of Economic Theory, and The Review of Industrial Organization. From 1993 until 1994 he was president of The Industrial Organization Society. Professor Gilbert's research specialties are in the areas of antitrust economics, intellectual property, research and development, energy markets, and public utility regulation.
Carol J. Gillespie was appointed as IVAX Corporation's Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in September 1998. For the prior 4 years, Ms. Gillespie was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Liposome Company, a biotech company located in Princeton, New Jersey. Previously, she served for 12 years in the law department of Syntex Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, most recently as its Vice President, Secretary and Associate General Counsel. Ms. Gillespie received an A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.I.A. degree from the Columbia University School of International Affairs, as well as a certificate from the Columbia University East Asian Institute. After earning her J.D. degree from the University of California School of Law, Berkeley, Ms. Gillespie began her legal career with the Los Angeles firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the state bars of California, New Jersey and Florida and the federal bars of the Central District of California and the District of New Jersey.
Ilene Knable Gotts is a partner in the New York City law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she focuses on antitrust matters, particularly relating to mergers and acquisitions. Mrs. Gotts previously worked as a staff attorney in the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission in conduct and merger investigations, and in the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection. In 1995, Mrs. Gotts served as the President of the Washington Council of Lawyers. She is a member of the Federal Bar Association, where she was Chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section from 1995 to 1997, the American Law Institute, and the New York State Bar Association's Antitrust Section Executive Committee .
Mrs. Gotts has long been an active participant in the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association. She is the current Chair of the Section's Clayton Act Committee and a member of the ABA Task Force on the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Mrs. Gotts is a frequent guest speaker, has had over 80 articles published on antitrust related topics, and is the editor of the upcoming second edition of the ABA Merger Review Process Handbook. She is a member of the editorial board of The Antitrust Counselor and The Practical Lawyer publications.
Mrs. Gotts received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Her law degree was awarded cum laude by Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.
M. HOWARD MORSE is an antitrust partner in the Washington, DC office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. He is a former Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he oversaw antitrust 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’s current practice is focused on structuring and orchestrating federal antitrust review of corporate transactions as well as antitrust counseling and litigation. He concentrates particularly on issues confronting high-tech industries and the complex interplay between antitrust and intellectual property law. Mr. Morse currently serves as chair of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law Intellectual Property Committee and is a member of the Section’s Task Force on HSR Investigations.
Willard K. Tom is a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, resident in its Washington, D.C. office.
Will served as deputy director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission from 1997-2000 and as Assistant Director for Policy and Evaluation from 1995-97. Prior to joining the FTC, he was counselor to the assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he had responsibility for telecommunications and intellectual property matters. He was also a member of the Division’s Intellectual Property Task Force, which drafted the DOJ and FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property.
Will is vice-chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section, has been a member of the Section Council, and chaired the Editorial Board for the Section's treatise, Antitrust Law Developments (3d ed. 1992). He has spoken and written on a wide variety of antitrust topics. Publications include The 1975 Xerox Consent Decree: Ancient Artifacts and Current Tensions, 68 Antitrust L.J. (forthcoming 2000); Toward a Flexible Rule of Reason, 68 Antitrust L.J. 391 (2000); Anticompetitive Aspects of Market-Share Discounts and Other Incentives to Exclusive Dealing, 67 Antitrust L.J. 615 (2000); U.S. Enforcement Approaches to the Antitrust/Intellectual Property Interface, in Robert D. Anderson & Nancy T. Gallini, eds., Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy (U. of Calgary Press, 1998); Antitrust and Intellectual Property: From Separate Spheres to Unified Field, 66 Antitrust L.J. 167 (1997); and Game Theory in the Everyday Life of the Antitrust Practitioner, 5 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 457 (1997).
He received his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1975, and his law degree, cum laude, in 1979 from Harvard Law School.
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