Title
antitrust and trade regulation bulletin FTC Releases Report on Intellectual Property and Antitrust
Abstract
Last year the FTC and the Department of Justice jointly held hearings focused on the current balance of competition and patent law and policy. (See our December, 2001 Antitrust and Trade Regulation Bulletin at www.haledorr.com/antitrust.) The hearings spanned more than 24 days, involving more than 300 panelists and 100 separate written submissions. The first tangible by-product of those sessions came on October 28, 2003, with the release of a 266-page FTC report containing specific recommendations for changes in the existing patent system (the Patent Report)(http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/10/creport .htm). A second, joint report with DOJ, containing specific recommendations for antitrust, is promised for the future.
Disciplines
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Date of this Version
December 2003
Recommended Citation
James Burling, John C. Christie Jr., and Michelle Miller, "antitrust and trade regulation bulletin FTC Releases Report on Intellectual Property and Antitrust" (December 2003). Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series. Working Paper 35.
https://law.bepress.com/wilmer/art35