Intellectual Property and Standard Setting

Abstract:     
This Chapter, forthcoming in the ABA Handbook on the Antitrust Aspects of Standards Setting (2010) provides an analytical overview of the antitrust issues involving intellectual property and standard setting including, but not limited to, patent holdup, royalty stacking, refusals to license, and patent pools.

Keywords: bundling, competition policy, disclosure rules, Essential Facilities Doctrine, innovation, licensing obligations, market power, monopsony power, network effects, property rights, Qualcomm, Rambus, SSOs, standard setting organizations, transactional costs

JEL Classifications: K11, K21, L41, L42, L44, O34

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