Antitrust Standing, Antitrust Injury, and the Per Se Standard

Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Standard Setting Organizations

The role of institutions in mediating the use of intellectual property rights has long been neglected in debates over the economics of intellectual property. In a path-breaking work, Rob Merges studied what he calls "collective rights organizations," industry groups that collect intellectual property rights from owners and license them as a package. Merges finds that these organizations ease so...

European Antitrust Control and Standard Setting

• Standards reduce production costs and increase products’ value to consumers. Standards however entail risks of anti-competitive abuse. After the adoption of a standard, the chosen technology normally lacks credible substitutes. The owner of the patented technology might thus have additional market power relative to locked-in licensees, and might exploit this power to charge higher access rate...

Antitrust Laws: the Nurse Wages Antitrust Litigation

Some Thoughts on "Antitrust Policy" and the Antitrust Community

Update on the antitrust ghost in the standard-setting machine

Richard Stern’s Micro Law column in the May-June 2005 issue of IEEE Micro (“The Antitrust Ghost in the Standard-Setting Machine”) captured the essence of a long-running obstacle to addressing the anticompetitive patent “hold-up” (the term refers to the practice of pointing a gun at someone to induce him to share his wealth) that undermines the open-standards objectives of standards developing o...