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Standard-Essential Patents and Antitrust: Of Fighting Ships and Frankenstein Monsters

BY | October 15, 2013

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 law. In recent years, the focus has…

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 law. In recent years, the focus has been on whether breach of a good faith commitment to license on reasonable and non-discriminatory (“RAND”) terms can be the basis for a monopolization claim. The question is whether, in the absence of any fraud or deception at the time of the RAND commitment, an antitrust violation occurs when a

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