Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression … guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly important in the context of the competition policy treatment of … intellectual property rights, given the complexity of this area, the importance that competition agencies attach to it, and its …

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta … -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E …, Eric C. Matolo -- Chapter 5. SSPPU: FRAND as Trust by Nicolas Petit -- Chapter 6. FRAND Commitments in Patent Portfolio …

pt. 1. IPRs, competition and the standards -- pt. 2. Anticompetitive conduct and standardization -- pt. 3. Reconciling … IPRs and competition in standard setting. …

A key assumption of today’s standard account of patents is that, absent patent protection, all products would generally … be purchased in a competitive market. However, the first regularized patent system appeared during the Renaissance in the …. Directly contrary to the view that patents tend to diminish competition, patents in the Venetian Republic enabled a new kind of …