Eye on the Law: Antitrust Risk & Responsibility in Eye Banking

In an evolving healthcare and regulatory landscape, understanding antitrust law is essential for eye banks and affiliated professionals. This session provides a foundational overview of antitrust principles, including how they apply to non-profit organizations, cooperative arrangements, and ocular tissue distribution practices. Diana Leiden, Partner at Winston and Strawn LLP, highlights how to identify and mitigate antitrust risks in areas such as pricing, market allocation, and collaboration with competitors.

Objectives:

To provide a clear explanation about antitrust laws
To identify and mitigate antitrust risks in eye banking
To ensure compliance with antitrust laws within the eye bank community

Attend this session to learn antitrust essentials, ensure compliance, promote ethical practices, and avoid costly legal pitfalls!

Diana Leiden

Partner

Winston & Strawn, LLP

Diana Leiden is Partner at Winston & Strawn, LLP. Diana practices trademark, copyright, right of publicity, and antitrust litigation, focusing on emerging technology and Internet issues, and has significant experience counseling clients regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). She has represented several technology and media companies in cutting edge intellectual property matters and is a frequent writer on new developments in copyright and entertainment law.

Diana litigates high-profile, complex antitrust conspiracy and monopolization cases and has particular knowledge in the mixed issues of antitrust and intellectual property law, including the antitrust implications of standards setting organizations, patent pools, and intellectual property licensing. Diana has also represented clients in trademark and trade dress matters in a wide range of industries, including fashion, healthcare, technology, and entertainment, and regularly counsels clients on brand protection issues. She has represented numerous Internet service providers, large media corporations, technology companies, retailers, and others in high-stakes litigations across a wide variety of industries.

Diana began her career with a year-long fellowship working as a staff attorney at a non-profit organization and continues to be dedicated to pro bono work. She represents a Guatemalan victim of domestic violence seeking asylum in the United States and recently obtained a notable victory at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board for a small publisher. In 2013 and 2016, she received the Winston & Strawn Pro Bono Commitment to Service Award for her work on behalf of Cameroonian refugees fleeing persecution on account of their sexual orientation.

Kevin Corcoran, CAE (Moderator)

President and CEO

Eye Bank Association of America

Kevin has spent the entirety of his professional career working with or for non-profit organizations. He started in membership and communications and has served as CEO of three associations, joining EBAA in 2011. He graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in marketing. Kevin believes that an association is most effective when it commits to strengthening its relationships with its members and supporting their needs.