The Troubling Use of Antitrust to Regulate FRAND Licensing

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Douglas Ginsburg, Koren Wong-Ervin, Joshua Wright, Oct 14, 2015

In the last year, we have seen a growing—and troubling—trend as courts and competition agencies around the globe propose and impose antitrust sanctions on holders of standard-essential patents for seeking injunctive relief against alleged infringers and for reneging on their commitment to license their patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. The