the antitrust risk for all forms of coordination, including arrangements of the type found in the IEEE-SA updated patent … policy. This paper explains that the antitrust risk generated by SSOs rate setting policies is presumably higher in the EU …

post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure). SIEIC is distinct from the mainstream unilateral effects theory of … analysis lies a fundamental question of competition theory: under what conditions can variations of existing economic models be … applied in merger cases? This paper is divided into three sections. In Section I, the SIEIC theory of harm is described and …

is perhaps the common assumption that a unifying substantive perspective, vision or theory on IPR underpins the … intersection point reached by the antitrust case-law. Whilst the theory of “absolutism” can be quickly disposed of, several other … unitary theory which, in turn, bespeaks the Court's vision of the social function of IPRs. Instead, the main feature of the …