A large and growing number of regulators and academics, while recognizing the benefits of standardization, view … skeptically the role standard setting organizations (SSOs) play in facilitating standardization and commercialization of … reduce incompleteness and favor an expanded role for antitrust law in deterring patent holdup. These criticisms and policy …

This Chapter, forthcoming in the ABA Handbook on the Antitrust Aspects of Standards Setting (2010) provides an … analytical overview of the antitrust issues involving intellectual property and standard setting including, but not limited to …

could subject the SDO and its members to other legal liabilities. Accordingly, the U.S. Antitrust Agencies have taken the …, despite these statements, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) recently issued a Business Review Letter …. In the letter, the DOJ went well beyond its mission of providing a statement of its antitrust enforcement intentions with …

Modern antitrust litigation sometimes involves complex expert economic and econometric analysis. While this boom in the … decision-making in antitrust litigation. We use a unique data set on antitrust litigation in district courts during 1996 …—2006 to examine whether economic complexity impacts decisions in antitrust cases, and thereby provide a novel test of the …

role for antitrust challenges to PH laws and similar anticompetitive state regulation. If states wish to reduce the social …

high-profile antitrust matters. In 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice challenged AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner …, including the vertical GUPPI variant. We then discuss these models in the context of recent antitrust cases and detail the … lead to a more balanced approach regarding their use in antitrust matters …