This comment is submitted to the U.S. Antitrust Agencies by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School, George Mason University on the Agencies' Proposed Update of the Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. The GAI Competition Advocacy Program provides a...

Industrial policy in the United States is shaped by a number of factors, including federal and state statutes, the courts, private litigation, and activities by the federal antitrust agencies. Increased attention has been paid to the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property laws in...

The paper discusses three claims as the framework for rethinking the relationship between antitrust and intellectual property rights (IP) in the United States: (1) the claim that antitrust has always been the product of a fundamental tension between competition policy and private property...

This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...