Recently by William H. Rooney
FTC Requires Patentee To Fulfill Licensing Commitments To A Standard-Setting Organization To Prevent Consumer Harm
On January 23, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC" or the "Commission") announced a complaint and a proposed consent order with a patent licensing company, Negotiated Data Solutions LLC ("N-Data"), regarding patents related to the ubiquitous Ethernet computer networking standard.1With...
Read MoreFTC And DOJ Issue Joint Report Regarding Antitrust Enforcement And Intellectual Property Rights
Interesting and difficult questions lie at the intersection of intellectual property rights and antitrust enforcement. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the "Agencies") recently released a long-awaited joint report on that intersection entitled "Antitrust Enforcement...
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