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Antitrust and Trade Regulation

Fordham Law School

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2012

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Leveraging Information About Patents: Settlements, Portfolios, And Holdups, Mark R. Patterson Jan 2012

Leveraging Information About Patents: Settlements, Portfolios, And Holdups, Mark R. Patterson

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The purpose of this essay is twofold. First, it serves to emphasize the role played by uncertainty in three otherwise very different categories of cases, involving “reverse payment” settlements, patent portfolios and package licensing, and deception in standard-setting. The source of the uncertainty at issue in each of the cases is different, but in each the unavailable information is not protected by patent law. Second, the essay points out that in these cases the courts nevertheless apply rules that are more appropriate for the information about inventions that patent law is intended to protect. Patent law grants patentees the exclusive …


The Statutory Ucc: Interpretative License And Duty Under Article 2, Nicholas J. Johnson Jan 2012

The Statutory Ucc: Interpretative License And Duty Under Article 2, Nicholas J. Johnson

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