Essential Guidance for Non-(Standard) Essential Patent Pools: DOJ’s UTLP Business Review Letter
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21
It has long been recognized that patent pools can create licensing efficiencies by establishing “onestop shops” for patents owned by multiple rights owners. There is also broad consensus that patentee collaboration in patent pools can raise antitrust risks. Over the years, business review letters from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and other agency guidance has established a blueprint for antitrust safeguards that have been implemented in numerous patent pools. There has been...
By: WilmerHale