In this chapter, the author focuses on contracts that reference rivals (CRRs), such as most-favored-nation provisions (MFNs), and provides a brief survey of past and current CRR cases, as well as the findings in economic literature. CRRs have been and will likely remain to be the subject of antitrust scrutiny in government and private litigation as seen in the recent Apple e-books case.
This chapter appears in Antitrust Economics for Lawyers. For more information, click here.
IP Literature Watch: May 2022
Among the pieces featured in this month’s IP Literature Watch are a paper examining and comparing patent licensing through a fixed fee and a per-unit royalty...