Equity, Antitrust, And The Reemergence Of The Patent Unenforceability Remedy,
2011
American University Washington College of Law
Equity, Antitrust, And The Reemergence Of The Patent Unenforceability Remedy, Jorge Contreras
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
The conventional legal analysis of technical standard setting derives primarily from antitrust law. But antitrust remedies, taken alone, may not be broad enough to address recent abuses of the standardization process. The principal example of this shortcoming is the well-known case of Rambus, Inc., which, over the course of several years, was alleged to have concealed relevant patent applications from a standards organization in which it participated and then successfully sued the entire DRAM industry for royalties after the standard was “locked-in.” Remarkably, Rambus prevailed in its litigation campaign despite aggressive enforcement efforts by the Federal Trade Commission. Rambus’s success …
Reverse Settlements As Patent Invalidity Signals,
2011
University of Baltimore School of Law
Reverse Settlements As Patent Invalidity Signals, Gregory Dolin
All Faculty Scholarship
Over the last decade a new type of settlements, commonly referred to as “reversed payment settlements” or simply “reverse settlements,” emerged in litigation over patents covering pharmaceutical products. What differentiates these new settlements from their traditional counterparts is that whereas traditionally, the alleged trespasser on someone else's rights pays the rights-holder to settle the litigation, in these new settlements it is the rights holder that pays the alleged trespasser. These settlements are a direct consequence of the various incentives provided by the Hatch-Waxman Act - an Act designed to increase competition between brand name and generic manufactures of pharmaceutical products. …
"Consumer Choice" Is Where We Are All Going - So Let's Go Together,
2011
Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
"Consumer Choice" Is Where We Are All Going - So Let's Go Together, Neil W. Averitt, Robert H. Lande, Paul Nihoul
All Faculty Scholarship
Globalisation of business makes it important for firms to predict how their behaviour is likely to be treated in the roughly 200 nations that have competition laws. In that context, a crucial question is: are we in a position to develop a common intellectual framework that would give coherence to policy statements made on specific competition related issues and, at the same time, be acceptable, broadly, in a variety of legal systems, not necessarily based on identical assumptions? We believe that the answer is “yes.” A concept is emerging as a possible source of unification for competition policies around the …
Unconscionable Amateurism: How The Ncaa Violates Antitrust By Forcing Athletes To Sign Away Their Image Rights, 44 J. Marshall L. Rev. 533 (2011),
2011
UIC School of Law
Unconscionable Amateurism: How The Ncaa Violates Antitrust By Forcing Athletes To Sign Away Their Image Rights, 44 J. Marshall L. Rev. 533 (2011), Brian Welch
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Case For Rebalancing Antitrust And Regulation,
2011
Georgetown University
The Case For Rebalancing Antitrust And Regulation, Howard A. Shelanski
Michigan Law Review
The continued growth of forensic DNA databases has brought about greater interest in a search method known as "familial" or "kinship" matching. Whereas a typical database search seeks the source of a crime-scene stain by making an exact match between a known person and the DNA sample, familial searching instead looks for partial matches in order to find potential relatives of the source. The use of a familial DNA search to identify the alleged "Grim Sleeper" killer in California brought national attention to the method, which has many proponents. In contrast, this Article argues against the practice of familial searching …
European Audiovisual Sector: Where Business Meets Society’S Needs,
2011
University of Warsaw
European Audiovisual Sector: Where Business Meets Society’S Needs, Ewelina D. Sage
Monografie CARS/CARS Monographs
Podręcznik prezentuje obszerny i aktualny przegląd różnych działań Unii Europejskiej podejmowanych w celu przypsieszenia szeroko zakrojonego, bezpiecznego i efektywnego europejskiego sektora audiowizualnego. Jest on w pierwszym rzędzie przeznaczony dla studentów ekonomii i zarządzania oraz dziennikarstwa. W podręczniku są trzy zasadnicze częsci. Pierwsza jest poświęcona zróżnicowanym celom społeczno-gospodarczym realizowanym w tym obszarze przez UE. Druga obejmuje działania UE skierowane na wzmocnienie podstaw rozwoju rynków wewnętrznych. Trzecia prezentuje działania podejmowane przez UE w celu utrzymania konkurencyjności europejskich rynków audiowizualnych. Szczególnym przedmiotem rozważań jest Dyrektywa o Usługach Audiowizualnych i jej związek z ustawodawstwem poszczególnych państw członkowskich UE, a także działania wspomagające (np. program …
Sprawiedliwość Proceduralna W Postępowaniu Przed Organem Ochrony Konkurencji,
2011
Wydział Zarządzania, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Sprawiedliwość Proceduralna W Postępowaniu Przed Organem Ochrony Konkurencji, Maciej Bernatt
Monografie CARS/CARS Monographs
Kolejna (ósma) monografia z serii wydawniczej „Podręczniki i Monografie” CARS autorstwa dr Macieja Bernatta jest poświęcona problematyce respektowania sprawiedliwości proceduralnej w postępowaniu przed organem ochrony konkurencji – Prezesem Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów i Komisją Europejską. Celem rozważań zawartych w książce jest odpowiedź na pytanie, czy proceduralne instytucje prawne gwarantują respektowanie w tym postępowaniu wyróżnionych wartości sprawiedliwości proceduralnej. Badane jest, czy wyodrębnionym wartościom odpowiadają właściwie gwarancje – uprawnienia procesowe uczestnika tego postępowania i obowiązki organu ochrony konkurencji i kontrolującego go sądu. Procedura antymonopolowa podlega zatem badaniu z perspektywy prawa do wysłuchania, prawa do obrony, prawa do równego uczestnictwa w postępowaniu, …
Sieci Szerokopasmowe W Polityce Telekomunikacyjnej,
2011
University of Warsaw
Sieci Szerokopasmowe W Polityce Telekomunikacyjnej, Stanisław Piątek
Monografie CARS/CARS Monographs
Kolejna (już siódma) książka z serii wydawniczej „Podręczniki i Monografie” CARS. Monografia prof. S. Piątka jest poświęcona polityce telekomunikacyjnej w sprawie zapewnienia dostępu o sieci szerokopasmowych, zwanego także szerokopasmowym dostępem do Internetu. Książka dotyczy przede wszystkim wpływu instytucji publicznych na rozwój komunikacji szerokopasmowej. Są w niej analizowane dwa aspekty formułowania realizacji polityki telekomunikacyjnej w sprawach sieci szerokopasmowych – aspekt instytucjonalny (dotyczący głównych uczestników tego procesu) i aspekt regulacyjny (dotyczący mechanizmu podejmowania przez władze publiczne decyzji określających warunki prowadzenia działalności telekomunikacyjnej w tych sprawach, w których rynek zawodzi).
Is There Life After Death For Sports League Immunity - American Needle And Beyond,
2011
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Is There Life After Death For Sports League Immunity - American Needle And Beyond, Meir Feder
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )
No abstract provided.
Patent Law In The Antitrust Scope: Between Social Advancement And Competition Impingement, 11 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 367 (2011),
2011
UIC School of Law
Patent Law In The Antitrust Scope: Between Social Advancement And Competition Impingement, 11 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 367 (2011), Yaniv Gal
UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law
In the past couple of decades, many scholars have debated the worthiness of the limited monopoly that patent law provides. The widespread attitude has always been, since the progress of the technological era, that in order to stimulate inventors and possessors of knowledge to embody their knowledge by innovative products, and produce ameliorations into society, they should be given strong proprietary rights over their innovative information and ideas. With the rise of the economic analysis of law, dissident opinions have been starting to emerge, evoking the social damage absorbed due to the current patent system monopoly character in form of …
Why Copperweld Was Actually Kind Of Dumb: Sound, Fury, And The Once And Still Missing Antitrust Theory Of The Firm?,
2011
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
Why Copperweld Was Actually Kind Of Dumb: Sound, Fury, And The Once And Still Missing Antitrust Theory Of The Firm?, Chris Sagers
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Since even before Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp., 467 U.S. 752 (1984), it has been thought that antitrust needs some "theory of the firm" to inform its application of a "single-entity" defense in Sherman Act section 1 litigation. Not only is that sense mistaken, it is emblematic of the deep misdirection of contemporary antitrust. It shows just how far antitrust has forgotten that it is a law, a practical tool to implement policy choices made through our system of government. Much too much of the time, it seems to fancy itself rather an abstract policy seminar to be …
Standardization And Markets: Just Exactly Who Is The Government, And Why Should Antitrust Care?,
2011
Cleveland State University
Standardization And Markets: Just Exactly Who Is The Government, And Why Should Antitrust Care?, Christopher L. Sagers
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
We take for granted that the basic choice in public policy is between allocation of resources by government bureaucracy, on the one hand, or allocation by markets, on the other. But that dichotomy is false, and at least under contemporary circumstances it is more accurate to describe the choice as between allocation by one kind of bureaucracy and allocation by a different kind of bureaucracy. This poses a problem for our antitrust policy, because it lacks any coherent guidance as to how to address those entities and transactions that are not governmental but are also not simply market-governed. This paper …
Antitrust Merger Efficiencies In The Shadow Of The Law,
2011
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Antitrust Merger Efficiencies In The Shadow Of The Law, D. Daniel Sokol, James A. Fishkin
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Essay provides an overview of U.S. antitrust merger practice in addressing efficiencies both in terms of actual practice before the agencies and in scholarly work as a response to Jamie Henikoff Moffitt's Vanderbilt Law Review article Merging in the Shadow of the Law: The Case for Consistent Judicial Efficiency Analysis. Moffitt’s analysis could have benefited from a more thorough discussion of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission’s (collectively, the “agencies”) analysis of efficiencies during investigations and the broader process of negotiations involving mergers. For instance, the article does not discuss the empirical work addressing when the agencies …
A Critical Look At The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement,
2011
University of Richmond
A Critical Look At The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, David M. Quinn
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
On October 23, 2007, the United States announced an initiative to strengthen intellectual property enforcement measures within the international community via the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (“ACTA”). During the following years, eleven rounds of negotiations among as many parties culminated in a finalized text released on December 3, 2010. The dialogue occurred outside the purview of existing bodies such as the WIPO and WTO. The ACTA now awaits acceptance following the March 31, 2011 commencement of the ratification period. It will enter into force thirty days following the sixth formal approval.
Patent Settlements, Risk, And Competition,
2011
Fordham University School of Law
Patent Settlements, Risk, And Competition, Mark R. Patterson
Faculty Scholarship
PowerPoint presentation delivered at the session, Patent Settlements: The Issues Beyond the "Reverse Payment" Cases at the ABA 59th Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting, March 30, 2011.
Competition And Regulation In The Insurance Sector: Reassessing The Mccarran-Ferguson Act,
2011
Penn State Law
Competition And Regulation In The Insurance Sector: Reassessing The Mccarran-Ferguson Act, Susan Beth Farmer
Faculty Scholarship
This article was presented at a symposium entitled “Public and Private: Are the Boundaries in Transition?” sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute on June 24, 2010. It proposes a different paradigm, which more precisely describes regulation and competition in the insurance sector. This relationship is the shifting boundary between state and federal regulation instead of a boundary between the public and private sectors. The McCarran-Ferguson Act was adopted to protect firms acting in the business of insurance from federal antitrust scrutiny, but its language and impact goes far beyond federal competition law. So broad is the exemption that the modern …
Provigil: A Commentary,
2011
University of Michigan Law School
Provigil: A Commentary, Daniel A. Crane
Articles
Michael Carrier's case study on Provigil' offers new support for the view that Big Pharma is to blame for stymieing competition, retarding innovation, and inflating prices in the drug industry. Carrier argues that Cephalon was able to thwart generic entry by a combination of anticompetitive strategies. It entered into a reverse payment settlement agreement with generics seeking to enter the market. These settlements purported to allow generic entry before the expiration of the patent period, but, according to Carrier, the promise of early entry was negated by the second prong of Cephalon's anticompetitive strategy. During the time that it had …
International Antitrust Cooperation And The Preference For Nonbinding Regimes,
2011
Columbia Law School
International Antitrust Cooperation And The Preference For Nonbinding Regimes, Anu Bradford
Faculty Scholarship
Today, multinational corporations operate in increasingly international markets, yet antitrust laws regulating their competitive conduct remain national. Thus, corporations are subject to divergent antitrust regimes across the various jurisdictions in which they operate. This increases transaction costs, causes unnecessary delays, and raises the likelihood of conflicting decisions. The risks inherent in multi-jurisdictional regulatory review were prominently illustrated in the proposed GE/Honeywell acquisition, which failed following the European Union’s (“EU”) decision to prohibit the transaction despite its earlier approval in the United States. Inconsistent remedies imposed on Microsoft following parallel investigations by both the U.S. and EU authorities serve as another …
A Patent Misperception,
2011
The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
A Patent Misperception, Elizabeth I. Winston
Scholarly Articles
Antitrust and intellectual property laws promote innovation and competition. As long as the costs of promotion do not exceed the benefit to society, then the laws act in harmony. Discord arises when patent holders use public and private ordering to restrain competition, restrict downstream trade, prevent the development of competing products and limit output by competitors. Using the Patent Act and the misperception of antitrust immunity to create a parallel and under-regulated legal system allows a small number of patent holders to coordinate their behavior to maximize profits and minimize competition. The Patent Act provides no shield to prosecution for …
Strength Of The International Trade Commission As A Patent Venue,
2011
University of Richmond
Strength Of The International Trade Commission As A Patent Venue, Christopher A. Cotropia
Law Faculty Publications
The data suggests that the ITC is here to stay and almost all patent enforcement actions will take place, at least in part, in the ITC. The landscape of patent enforcement has permanently changed, and the ITC is a solid part of it. This Article reaches these conclusions by first, in Part I, describing the unique features of the ITC that make it a favored venue of patentees. Part II describes the Federal Circuit's decision in Kyocera and the various postulates as to its impact. Part III describes the study, the specific data obtained, and the results. Part IV analyzes …
