Patent settlements between rivals restrain competition in many different ways. Antitrust requires that their …

pharmaceutical industry between originator and generic firms have been scrutinized critically by competition authorities for delaying … the market entry of generics and therefore harming consumers. In this paper we present a model that analyzes the tradeoff … a policy parameter for determining the optimal additional period for collusion that would maximize consumer welfare and …

has said that patent litigation is categorically different, since it offers the chance to increase competition by freeing … that patent challenges lead to increased competition. It identifies a number of conditions that must hold for a patent … categories of challenges in which the potential benefits for competition are smaller than previously thought or, in some cases …

passing too much of the licensing value through to consumers, which may enhance joint profits. Second, licensing to a rival …-party competition. This is the same problem that arises when a firm buys stock in a competitor. Consequently, even if the royalty rate …

-grant competition will diminish such efforts. This is just a special case of the more general claim that a market will be more … asserts that this post-grant market should involve little or no competition, and infers from this that patents should be broad …. However, economists have long debated the relationship between competition and innovation. A leading view among contemporary …

. Important legal tests that make sense in the single market setting do not carry over to the context we call serial collusion …, where certain offenders engage in repeat collusion across product lines. This Article argues that there is an urgent need to … recast these tests to address serial collusion of the sort that prevails in the chemicals, auto parts and electronics …

-designed statutory inducements lead to excessively-delayed competition even in lieu of such payments. Our empirical findings suggest that …

Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies would prevail under the European Union (“EU”) competition rules. Recent … EU competition case-law has promoted a very hard line in the area of coordinated conduct. Cases such as Dole Food Company … Food Company), episodic collusion (T-Mobile) and horizontal agreements with limited market coverage (Expedia). Those …