Tag: RAND
The Royalty Stacking Supposition
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Richard Stark, Mar 16, 2015
It has become commonplace for serious people to assert...
Carte Blanche for SSOs? The Antitrust Division’s Business Review Letter on...
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Stuart Chemtob, Mar 16, 2015
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice failed...
What a Difference a Year Makes: An Emerging Consensus on the...
Jonathan Kanter, Dec 30, 2013
These days, it is difficult to identify an antitrust issue that is generating more discussion than standard-essential patents. To some,...
REPs Not SEPs: A Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Approach to Licensing Commitments
John Harkrider, Oct 15, 2013
A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of RAND commitments in recent years. Lawyers and judges have...
Standard-Essential Patents and Antitrust: Of Fighting Ships and Frankenstein Monsters
Sean P. Gates, Oct 15, 2013
Standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) have been at the heart of a debate about the reach of U.S. antitrust ...
Antitrust Concerns of Patent Acquisitions
Ilene Knable Gotts, Scott Sher, Oct 01, 2012
Recent events demonstrate that patents increasingly are being purchased and used for anticompetitive means. For example, patent...
Why the Supreme Court Was Correct to Deny Certiorari in FTC...
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Joshua Wright, Mar 26, 2009
In November 2008, the Federal Trade Commission petitioned the...
Standards and Market Power
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Nicholas Banasevic, Cecilio Madero, May 16, 2008
Standards play an increasingly significant role in...