Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights: Cases and Materials

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN ANTITRUST LAW AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
	1 A Primer on Intellectual Property Law
		A. Patents
		B. Copyrights
		C. Trademarks
		D. Trade Secrets
		E. Other Forms of Intellectual Property
		Comments and Questions
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	2 A Primer on Antitrust Law
		A. Sherman Act (1890)
		B. Clayton Act (1914)
		C. Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
		Comments and Questions
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	3 The Tension Between Antitrust and Intellectual Property
		A. A Brief History on the Relationship Between Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights
		B. The Relationship Between Intellectual Property and Market Power
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
		C. Antitrust Law and the Misuse of Intellectual Property
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
		D. Economic Concepts
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
PART TWO: THE ANTITRUST IMPLICATIONS OF UNILATERAL CONDUCT BY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS
	4 Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
		A. Enforcement of a Fraudulently Procured Patent
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
		B. Sham Litigation
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	5 Tying Arrangements and Intellectual Property
		U.S. Dep’t of Justice & Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights: Promoting Innovation and Competition (2007)
		DOJ-FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property, Sec. 5.3
		A. Tying Arrangements and Patented Products
		B. Antitrust Implications of Block-Booking of Copyrighted Works
		C. Copyrighted Software and Tying
		D. Trademarks and Tying
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	6 Unilateral Refusals to License or Deal
		DOJ-FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property, Sec. 2.2
		Data General Corp. v. Grumman Systems Support Corp.
		Image Technical Serv. v. Eastman Kodak
		In re Independent Service Organizations Antitrust Litigation (Xerox)
		Note on Market Power in Aftermarkets
		Note on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
		Intergraph Corp. v. Intel Corp.
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	7 Design Changes and Predatory Innovation
		Berkey Photo, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co.
		Foremost Pro Color, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co.
		C.R. Bard, Inc. v. M3 Systems, Inc.
		Automatic Radio Manufacturing Co. v. Ford Motor Co.
		Abbott Laboratories v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	8 Deceptive Conduct before Standard-Setting Organizations
		In the Matter of Dell Computer Corp.
		Broadcom Corp. v. Qualcomm Inc.
		Rambus, Inc. v. FTC
		Note on Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
PART THREE: THE ANTITRUST IMPLICATIONS OF HORIZONTAL AGREEMENTS INVOLVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
	9 Price Fixing and Intellectual Property
		A. Patents and Cartels
		B. Patent Pooling and Price Fixing
		C. Blanket Licensing of Copyrighted Works
		D. Standard-setting Organizations
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	10 Market Allocation and Intellectual Property Rights
		A. Patents and Market Allocation
		B. Trademarks and Market Allocation
		C. Copyrights and Market Allocation
		D. International Intellectual Property Regimes and Market Allocation
		E. DOJ-FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property, Sec. 5.1
	11 Pharmaceutical Settlements and Reverse Payments
		In re Cardizem CD Antitrust Litigation
		Schering-Plough Corp. v. F.T.C.
		C. Scott Hemphill, An Aggregate Approach to Antitrust: Using New Data and Rulemaking to Preserve Drug Competition, 109 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 629 (2009)
		In re Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litigation
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	12 Agreements to Buy and Sell Intellectual Property as an Antitrust Violation
		A. Acquisition of IP as a Conspiracy to Restrain Trade
		B. Agreements to Acquire Intellectual Property and Merger Law
	13 Group Boycotts and Concerted Refusals to Deal or License
		A. Antitrust Treatment of Concerted Refusals to Deal
		B. Concerted Refusals to Deal with a Patentee
		C. Group Boycotts and Copyrights
PART FOUR: THE ANTITRUST IMPLICATIONS OF VERTICAL AGREEMENTS INVOLVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
	14 Vertical Price Restraints and Intellectual Property
		A. The Foundation of Antitrust’s Treatment of Vertical Price Restraints
		B. General Electric and the Ability of Patent Owners to Set Resale Prices
		C. Vertical Price Fixing and Copyrighted Works
		D. Resale Price Maintenance and Trademarked Goods
		E. The Demise of Dr. Miles
	15 Non-price Licensing Restrictions
		DOJ-FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property, § 2.3
		B. Braun Med., Inc. v. Abbott Labs
		A Note on Exhaustion Doctrine
		United States v. Studiengesellschaft Kohle
		DOJ-FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property, Examples of Licensing
		Transparent-Wrap Machine Corp. v. Stokes & Smith Co.
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	16 The Antitrust Implications of Structuring Royalties
		Automatic Radio Manufacturing v. Hazeltine Research
		Brulotte v. Thys Co.
		Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
		Scheiber v. Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
PART FIVE: INJURY, REMEDIES, JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL ISSUES
	17 Standing and Antitrust Injury
		A. Competitor Standing
		B. Consumer Standing
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	18 Remedies
		U. S. v. Glaxo Group Ltd.
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
	19 Jurisdiction and Procedural Issues
		Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp.
		Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc.
		Hydranautics v. FilmTec Corp.
		Bibliography of Additional Resources
APPENDICES
	Appendix A: Statutory Supplement
	Appendix B: Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property
	Appendix C: Microeconomic Analysis and Graphs
Table of Cases
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