Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) typically require their members to license any standard-essential patent on Fair …. Under our proposed approach, if an standard-essential patent owner and an implementer of the standard cannot agree on … licensing terms, the standard-essential patent owner is obligated to enter into binding baseball-style (or “final offer …

A commonly offered justification for patent trolls or non-practicing entities (NPEs) is that they serve as a middleman … patent licensing to see how often patent license demands actually led to innovation or technology transfer. We find that very … few patent license demands actually lead to new innovation; most simply involve payment for the freedom to keep doing what …

-setting organizations (SSOs) should limit enforcement of patent rights, whether a promise to license SEPs on fair, reasonable, and non … asserted by non-practicing entities (NPEs), also known as patent trolls. NPEs do much worse in court, even when they assert … raises interesting questions about the role of NPEs in patent law and the policy efforts to curb patent litigation abuse …

copyright (and even patent) law would require. These software license agreements are of two types: bargained agreements for …

This Comment evaluates the economic effects of the patent misuse doctrine. The patent misuse doctrine is an equitable …” their patent grant, either by using the patent to violate the antitrust laws or by extending their patent monopoly in some … other way. The author first describes the nature and scope of antitrust protection in the patent area, and contrasts the …