Is the Supreme Court Importing Antitrust Economics into Patent Law? A Different Look at eBay, MedImmune, KSR, and Quanta Computer

Hill Wellford, Mar 26, 2009

Is the Supreme Court’s economics-intensive and generalist antitrust jurisprudence beginning to affect its view of patent law? It appears that the answer is yes. Patent law has long been the ultimate in technical statutes and specialist practice. Antitrust law, in contrast although at one time it had a similar reputation has developed essentially as common law, and in recent decades has come