Tag: SSOs
An Introduction to Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development
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...
Licensing Of Standard Essential Patents: Antitrust Intervention Is Not Big Enough...
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...
Patently Obvious: Why Seeking Injunctions on Standard-Essential Patents Subject to 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...
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 Setting: Should There Be a Level Playing Field for All...
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...
Standard Setting Organizations Can Help Solve the Standard Essential Patents Licensing...
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,...
Reasons to Reject a No Injunctions Rule for SEPs and FRAND-Obligated...
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...
Reasons to Reject a No Injunctions Rule for SEPs and FRAND-Obligated...
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...
Competition, Standards, and Patents
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...
Revising the Technology Transfer Guidelines
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...
