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Patent Licensing

Learn about how courts and antitrust agencies analyze patent holders’ uses of their patents.

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In this lesson, we’ll learn about how courts and antitrust agencies analyze patent holders’ uses of their patents.

I.              Patent Licensing and Antitrust Law

The monopoly enjoyed by patent holders includes an exclusive right to make, use, or sell their patented technology, or to license to others to do so, for a fixed period of time. A patent holder’s monopoly over the patent isn’t dissimilar to another property owner’s...

Lessons

1. Welcome to Antitrust
  • Welcome to Antitrust
2. The Origins and Economics of Antitrust Law
3. The Scope of Antitrust Law
  • Interstate Commerce, Overseas Commerce, and Organized Labor
  • State Action
  • First Amendment and Other Immunities
4. Horizontal Restraints
  • Defining the Market
  • Horizontal Agreements
  • Per Se Violations
  • The Rule of Reason
5. Vertical Restraints
  • Vertical Agreements
  • Resale Price Maintenance
  • Vertical Market Allocation
  • Tying Arrangements
  • Exclusive Dealing
6. Monopolization
  • Monopolies and Monopolization
  • Monopolistic Practices
  • Monopolization, Attempted Monopolization, and Conspiracy to Monopolize
7. Price Discrimination
  • Pure Price Discrimination
  • Brokerage Practices and Promotional Allowance Discrimination
  • Liability and Affirmative Defenses
8. Mergers and Antitrust Enforcement
  • Mergers
  • Merger Review
  • Antitrust: Private Rights of Action
  • Antitrust: Public Enforcement
9. Global Competition Law and Patents
  • Global Competition Law
  • Patents
  • Patent Licensing