This issue, compiled with Danny Sokol’s guidance, dives into the very murky waters of patents and acronyms—SEPs, FRANDs, non-SEPs among others. As one of our esteemed authors notes, antitrust lawyers…

Jonathan Kanter, Oct 15, 2013 These days, it is difficult to identify an antitrust issue that is generating more discussion than standard-essential patents. To some, SEPs are to antitrust what…

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 the market power they confer…

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 offered opinions on the proper…

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 industry standard. To do so,…

Oct 15, 2013 This article examines how the Article 9 commitments procedure under EC Regulation 1/2003 is increasingly being used to create policy under the guise of law and, in…

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 considerable attention. The issues most often…

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…