Antitrust Risks in Patent Pools and SSOs
Avoiding Price Fixing, Exclusionary Conduct
Recording of a 90-minute CLE teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Recorded event now available
Description
Patent owners work together to facilitate interoperability of products through standard setting organizations (SSO) and patent pools.
SSOs help develop industry standards for particular technologies and patent pools offer a package for licensing essential patents to make a standardized product. However, both raise antitrust concerns.
Patent owners received good news when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the FTC’s ruling in Rambus. Patent owners must still be wary as antitrust authorities in other jurisdictions, including Europe, will likely take a tougher stance toward SSO conduct.
Listen as our authoritative panel of antitrust attorneys examines SSOs and patent pools, the current state of the law as it relates to them, the antitrust pitfalls and strategies for structuring them to avoid antitrust violations.
Outline
- Standard setting bodies
- Benefits
- Concerns
- Antitrust principles applicable to standard setting bodies
- Avoiding antitrust pitfalls in standard setting
- Patent pools
- Patent pools defined
- Benefits
- Concerns
- Recent developments /current state of the law
- Avoiding antitrust pitfalls in patent pools
- Best practices for structuring PP and SSOs
- Patent pools
- Standard setting bodies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the antitrust concerns raised by standard setting organizations and patent pools?
- What is the current state of the law? Does the Rambus ruling create a circuit split?
- What steps can IP owners and their counsel take to minimize antitrust violations?
Faculty
Carl W. Hittinger,
Partner
DLA Piper, Philadelphia
He focuses on complex commercial and civil rights litigation with an emphasis on antitrust and unfair competition matters, counseling clients on all aspects of civil and criminal antitrust law. He has represented various trade associations and their members. He also regularly represents corporations in investigations and actions brought by government and regulatory agencies.
Erica S. Mintzer,
Counsel
Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C.
She has significant experience counseling clients on a wide range of antitrust issues, including mergers, Robinson-Patman issues, distribution issues, and trade association matters. She also has litigation experience in federal antitrust actions, including federal antitrust administrative litigation before the FTC.
Jeffrey Blumenfeld,
Partner
Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C.
He specializes in antitrust and other complex litigation, and competition issues facing technology companies, including at the intersection of intellectual property and competition law. He also handles cartel investigations and trials and has significant antitrust experience in counseling, litigation and trial of both civil and criminal antitrust matters.
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Partner
Fenwick & West
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Greenberg Traurig
Partner
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Partner
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Briggs and Morgan
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
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