July 23, 2013

Why the ITC is actually a good place to adjudicate standard-essential patents

Geoffrey A. Manne

Interest in patent cases — particularly those involving standard-essential patents — at the U.S. International Trade Commission has increased lately, especially in light of recent attention from the White House and Congress.

Intellectual Property

June 29, 2013

The FTC and Innovative Business Models for Patented Innovation

Adam Mossoff

The Federalist Society has started a new program, The Executive Branch Review, which focuses on the myriad fields in which the Executive Branch acts outside of the constitutional and legal limits…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 24, 2013

“A Line in the Sand on the Calls for New Patent Legislation,” by Wayne Sobon

Adam Mossoff

Over at the blog for the Center for the Protection for Intellectual Property, Wayne Sobon, the Vice President and General Counsel of Inventergy, has posted an important essay that criticizes the…

Intellectual Property

April 6, 2013

How Copyright Drives Innovation in Scholarly Publishing

Adam Mossoff

[Cross posted at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property blog.] Today’s public policy debates frame copyright policy solely in terms of a “trade off” between the benefits of…

Intellectual Property

March 15, 2013

The SHIELD Act: When Bad Economic Studies Make Bad Laws

Adam Mossoff

Earlier this month, Representatives Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz picked up the gauntlet from President Obama’s comments on February 14 at a Google-sponsored Internet Q&A on Google+ that “our efforts…

Intellectual Property

February 25, 2013

Comment, Technological Transition of the Nation's Comm. Infrastructure

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka

AT&T's petition presents the FCC with a stark choice: Bootstrap the regulations of a dying 20th century technology platform onto the networks of the future, to ever-diminishing consumer benefits, or take the lead in coordinating the transition to “Internet Everywhere”...

Telecommunications

February 23, 2013

Criticizing the FTC’s Proposed Order in the Google Patent Antitrust Case

Geoffrey A. Manne

I filed comments today on the FTC’s proposed Settlement Order in the Google standards-essential patents (SEPs) antitrust case. The Order imposes limits on the allowable process for enforcing FRAND licensing…

Intellectual Property

February 1, 2013

Copyright, Property Rights, and the Free Market

Adam Mossoff

Over at Cato Unbound, there has been a discussion this past month on copyright and copyright reform.  In his recent contribution to this discussion, Mark Schultz posted an excellent essay…

Intellectual Property

January 4, 2013

The price of closing the Google search antitrust case: questionable precedent on patents

Geoffrey A. Manne

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday closed its investigation of Google’s search business (see my comment here) without taking action. The FTC did, however, enter into a settlement with Google over the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection