Tag: Intellectual Property
Competition Authorities Support Grasshoppers: Competition Law as a Threat to Innovation
Sir Robin Jacob, Dec 20, 2013
Aesop’s fable is of the ant and the grasshopper. In summer the ant works, gathering and storing food against...
Angels Rush in Where Fools Fear to Tread: State Enforcement Against...
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Jay Himes, Matthew Perez, Jan 14, 2014
Nobody likes trolls-those mythical creatures, "considered dangerous...
Letter from the Editor – Fall 2013
The CPI Autumn 2013 issue features contributions from some of the participants to two roundtables on the intersection between intellectual property and antitrust that...
Patently Obvious: Why Seeking Injunctions on Standard-Essential Patents Subject to a...
Greg Sivinski, Oct 15, 2013
Technical standards are a necessary exception to a competitive marketplace based upon feature differentiation, but they pose risks because of...
Turning the Page: The Next Chapter of Disputes Involving Standard-Essential Patents
Jay Jurata, David Smith, Oct 15, 2013
A technology company is on the verge of introducing a cutting-edge device that builds on a widely adopted...
Canadian Perspectives on Competition Law and Reverse Payments Following FTC v....
David Rosner, Navin Joneja, Joshua Krane, Sep 30, 2013
The Canadian Competition Bureau, pharmaceutical companies operating in Canada, and Canadian lawyers have been following the...
Achieving the Most Effective Outside Counsel and Client Relationship for Both...
Michael McFalls, Apr 29, 2013
Transactional work can provide outside antitrust counsel immense opportunities to create, cement, and expand relationships with in-house counsel. For IP-intensive...
Patent Assertion Entities: Six Actions the Antitrust Agencies Can Take
Jan 29, 2013
One of the most pressing issues confronting antitrust in 2013 (and beyond) involves patent assertion entities ("PAEs"), previously known as patent trolls....
Competition Advocacy at the Federal Trade Commission: Recent Developments Build on...
Tara Isa Koslov, Aug 14, 2012
Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act broadly empowers the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") to prevent...
“Potential” Downstream Markets in European Antitrust Law: A Concept in Need...
John Temple Lang, Dec 22, 2011
Under European Union competition law, a dominant company has a duty to provide important inputs to its competitors. The...