IP Literature Watch: August 2023
In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include a paper exploring whether non-practicing entities are more likely than other patent enforcers to behave...
Actual or alleged conduct by intellectual property owners may give rise to private antitrust cases or actions by competition enforcement agencies. Antitrust issues may arise when, for example, patent, copyright, or trademark owners are alleged to have anticompetitively exploited their IP rights or, in the merger context, when intellectual property rights may be alleged to constitute a barrier to entry. CRA offers a team of world-class economists who specialize in the economics of antitrust and intellectual property.
We have provided oral and written expert testimony in hundreds of legal disputes involving intertwined IP and antitrust issues including, patent misuse, Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) royalties, pay-for-delay and reverse payments, and Walker process and other antitrust counterclaims.
Engagements
- 01European Commission closes antitrust investigation of royalty-free licensing policy for SEPsOn May 23, 2023, DG Competition closed its preliminary investigation of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM)’s royalty-free licensing policy, without further...View engagement
- 02At risk generic entry and impact of formulary statusIn a Hatch-Waxman litigation, a first-to-file generic manufacturer asked CRA to assess changes in formulary status that would result from the at-risk entry and...View engagement
- 03CRA economists assisted TCL in its litigation against EricssonCRA economists assisted TCL in its litigation against Ericsson involving a determination of FRAND rate for cellular standard SEPs in the US and in China. The...View engagement
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2023 Antitrust Law and Economics Institute for Federal Judges
Jointly sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, the ABA Antitrust Section, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, this...
2023 ABA-IPL Section Annual Conference
Tolga Bilgicer presents during the session titled “Exploring European and U.S. Agency Guidance on Antitrust and IP: Standardization Agreements, Patent...