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for basic research; an increased focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education; and an …
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Bert Foer is one of the most influential figures in the past quarter century of antitrust. His founding and development of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) filled a significant hole in late 20th-century antitrust and served as a useful counterweight to the Chicago School. In addition to...
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One of the areas of copyright law in most desperate need of reform is statutory damages. And while damages awards against direct infringers have received most of the attention, the effect on secondary infringers threatens to be far more detrimental for innovation. This submission to the...
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Using the sleep-disorder drug Provigil as a case study, this short symposium piece explores the anticompetitive harm presented by the combination of two distinct activities. First, brand-name drug firms such as Cephalon, the developer of Provigil, have settled patent litigation by paying generic...
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The smartphone industry today is characterized by a thicket of patents and wars based on those patents. Every day brings a new lawsuit or development between Apple, HTC, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung. The lawsuits span numerous courts and several continents. This 5-page article...
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Is antitrust law up to the task of addressing the "New Economy"? That is the question many have asked in recent years. And that is one of the key questions addressed by the Antitrust Modernization Commission ("AMC"), a commission that Congress established in 2002 "to examine whether the need...
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One of the most heated discussions in economics in recent years has concerned the relationship between market structure and innovation. After a half-century of debate and innumerable studies, the consensus is that there is no clear answer to the question. On a concrete level, the uncertainty...
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’s nondisclosure of its patents was responsible for the standard-setting organization (SSO) either (1) adopting its technology or (2 … Rambus’s technology even if it had been disclosed. But the difficulties of proving a sole cause and predicting a …
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This short piece responds to Alan Morrison’s post on SCOTUSblog that the Supreme Court’s Actavis decision is unclear because of its emphasis on “large and unjustified” payments. The piece first explains that the payments at issue in "reverse payment" cases are, by definition, likely to...
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This short article summarizes FTC v. Actavis, the first case in which the Supreme Court analyzed the antitrust legality of agreements by which brand-name drug companies pay generics to settle patent litigation and delay entering the market. It concludes that the ruling must be counted as a win...
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