How should antitrust agencies best deal with IPR licensing in a standardization setting?
Today, we start an online discussion about antitrust issues relating to ICT standardization. Two introductory remarks, by Tim Simcoe and Anne Layne-Farrar, raise thought-provoking ideas and questions relating to licensing of IPR and possible antitrust concerns. See also, recently added Hahn and Haft on News From the Court Room: The Orange-Book-Standard as well as Wright on Intellectual Property, Standard Setting and the Limitations of Antitrust.
I invite comments on the following introductory remarks to the right. Please join the discussion!
With this said, I would like to open this forum for further debate and discussion.
Mattias Ganslandt

comment by Timothy Simcoe
It's interesting to see another decision that skirts the "What is RAND?" (or in this case, what is "usual") question, ...
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comment by Josh Wright
Timothy: Agreed that it is not enough to simply say that antitrust is costly. Nor is that As cited in ...
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comment by Timothy Simcoe
Contract and patent law may provide alternative, and perhaps better, tools for addressing the problems presented in the N-Data case. ...
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comment by Timothy Simcoe
I think the best evidence we have on the link between SSO membership and IPR policies is the change to ...
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comment by Martin Sutinen
One question I find interesting is how ex ante disclosure of IPR prices would affect the balance between Royalty Free ...
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comment by Niklas Lindblom
Patents are important to standards. They drive technological innovation but just as important dissemination and use. I believe that ...
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comment by Marcus Glader
Just to add on to the antitrust discussion from a European perspective. Similar to the statements by the FTC ...
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