Suzanne . Munck

Federal Trade Commission
Suzanne Munck is Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property for the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Deputy Director of its Office of Policy Planning. Ms. Munck joined the FTC in 2007 and has since focused on several policy efforts, including the 2009 report addressing follow-on biologic competition and the 2011 report concerning the Evolving IP Marketplace. Ms. Munck is leading the FTC's study of patent assertion entities, and has testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights on issues related to standard essential patents and antitrust law. Ms. Munck also has significant litigation experience managing IP issues that arise during the FTC's enforcement efforts in the high-tech and healthcare sectors. In recognition of her work at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property, Ms. Munck has received the Commission's Paul Rand Dixon and Janet D. Steiger awards. Before joining the FTC, she was an antitrust and IP litigator in Los Angeles. She received her BA in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College and her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School.
 
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