Antitrust, Patent Pools, And the Management of Uncertainty

By Newberg, Joshua A.

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Title:	Antitrust, Patent Pools, And the Management of Uncertainty
Author:	Newberg, Joshua A.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
Collections:	Economics Publications Collection, Federal Trade Commission
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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I. INTRODUCTION: Much has been written in recent years on the role of antitrust law in regulating the conduct of combinations of high-technology firms. Some commentators have concluded that existing law is equal to the tasks of distinguishing the procompetitive benefits from the anticompetitive effects of such combinations and policing the anticompetitive restraints appropriately. Others have suggested that some important policy concerns -- most notably the encouragement of technological innovation -- are not adequately addressed by established antitrust analysis, and that significant changes in antitrust doctrine and enforcement policy are needed.3 Because antitrust is essentially a common-law field in which the basic statutes are written in the most general terms and new legislation tends to be rare and incremental, any agenda for significantly changing antitrust analysis must contend with the case law.