This paper studies the effects of a Standard Setting Organization (SSO) imposing a licensing cap for patents … technology to a standard. This rule has been proposed as a means of avoiding patent hold-up of licensing firms by granting patent …

downstream markets and the types of licensing agreements available. We show that a vertically integrated firm has an incentive to …

The quote in the title refers to a recurring principle in the Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual … Agencies' general approach in analyzing a licensing restraint under the rule of reason is to inquire whether the restraint is … licensing negotiations in standard setting contexts, which have been offered as a solution to the problem of opportunistic …