Professor Christina Bohannan's IP Misuse as Foreclosure enlightens the debate over the patent misuse doctrine's role in …

, barriers to entry, and foreclosure – were applied over time and across different dimensions such as the geographic market … foreclosure. These patterns are not changing over time. The role of the structural indicators in explaining competitive concerns …

This chapter analyzes the private rationale and the social costs and benefits of market foreclosure, here defined as a … vertical foreclosure (in which full access to a bottleneck input is denied to competitors) and provides an overview of the … private costs and benefits of foreclosure. The chapter then turns to horizontal foreclosure , where the monopoly good is sold …