Tag: SSOs

David Evans, Dec 20, 2013 There are several areas of economics where we know much more today than we did 50 years ago as a...

Eliana Garces, Dec 20, 2013 The recent antitrust interventions against patent holders issuing injunctions to assert standard essential patents have caused a stir and 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...

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...

Nadia Soboleva, Lawrence Wu, Oct 15, 2013 In the past few years, issues related to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing rates for patents have garnered...

Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Fiona Scott Morton, Howard Shelanski, Mar 05, 2013   Intellectual property rights were established in both the United States and Europe to protect inventors,...

Hill Wellford, Apr 30, 2012 Government officials, academics, and some industry participants recently have suggested that holders of so-called "standards-essential patents" ("SEPs"), meaning patents that are...

Hill Wellford, Apr 30, 2012 Government officials, academics, and some industry participants recently have suggested that holders of so-called "standards-essential patents" ("SEPs"), meaning patents that are...

Per Hellstrom, Thomas Kramler, Oct 01, 2012 The interface of competition, standards, and patents has received increased attention over the past few years, in particular...

Pierre Regibeau, Katharine Rockett, Apr 30, 2012 We were asked by DG Competition to provide an economic evaluation of the 2004 Technology Transfer Guidelines that...