Patents and Competition: Commercializing Innovation in the Global Ecosystem for 5G and the Internet of Things

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 47, 2022

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 47, 2022

Working Paper for chapter in book titled 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (Jonathan M. Barnet & Sean M. O’Connor, eds), Forthcoming

21 Pages Posted: 30 Aug 2022

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F. Scott Kieff

George Washington University - Law School

Thomas D. Grant

University of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law

Date Written: 2022

Abstract

Times are changing as our global ecosystem for commercializing innovation helps bring new technologies to market, networks grow, interconnections and transactions become more complex around standards and otherwise, all to enable vast opportunities to improve the human condition, to further competition, and to improve broad access. The policies that governments use to structure their legal systems for intellectual property, especially patents, as well as for competition—or antitrust—continue to have myriad powerful impacts and raise intense debates over challenging questions. This Chapter explores a representative set of debates about policy approaches to patents, to elucidate particular ideas to bear in mind about how adopting a private law, property rights-based approach to patents enables them to better operate as tools for facilitating the commercialization of new technologies in ways that best promote the goals of increasing access while fostering competition and security for a diverse and inclusive society.

Keywords: Intellectual property, patents, competition, antitrust, trade, international trade, security, national security, innovation, invention, 5G, internet of things, IoT, information, communication, technology, standards, standard setting organizations, SSO, standard essential patents, SEP, licensing, RAN

Suggested Citation

Kieff, F. Scott and Grant, Thomas D., Patents and Competition: Commercializing Innovation in the Global Ecosystem for 5G and the Internet of Things (2022). GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 47, 2022, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 47, 2022, Working Paper for chapter in book titled 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (Jonathan M. Barnet & Sean M. O’Connor, eds), Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4203890

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Thomas D. Grant

University of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law

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