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U.S./E.U.: Antitrust representatives gather to discuss overlap of intellectual property, antitrust laws

By  |  October 24, 2012

Representatives from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the FTC and the European Commission recently met for a series of speeches focusing on how to navigate the growing overlap between antitrust law and patent law. Analysts viewed the efforts as an encouraging sign of the evolving efforts of global regulators in recognizing often complex situations that simultaneously involve both monopoly-granting patents for intellectual property and antitrust-enforcement.

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