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2020

Towards a Competition Enabling Framework in Asia Pacific: Opportunities & Challenges – Korea Chapter (Translation)
 |  Jan 7, 2021

Below, we have provided the full, Korean transcript of the panel discussion, The Future of Mobile Ecosystems: Enabling a Choice for Market Players & Consumers in Korea, from the second…

Towards a Competition Enabling Framework in Asia Pacific: Opportunities & Challenges – Japan Chapter (Translation)
 |  Jan 7, 2021

Below, we have provided the full, Japanese transcript of the panel discussion, Online Advertising, Market Competition, Data and Transparency: Opportunities & Challenges for the Ads Ecosystem in Japan, from the…

Highlights From the 2020 LeadershIP Virtual Event
 |  Dec 21, 2020

Walter Copan, Makan Delrahim & Andrei Iancu On September 10, 2020, LeadershIP held an event titled Innovation Policy & the Role of Standards, IP, and Antitrust: a discussion between Walter…

Non-Discrimination – FRAND’s Last Stand?
 |  Dec 21, 2020

Compliance with FRAND commitments by holders of standard-essential patents has largely focused on the “fair and reasonable” component of the commitment. This essay explores the interpretation of the “non-discrimination” component…

The DOJ 2020 Business Review Letter to IEEE: Balance Restored
 |  Dec 21, 2020

In September 2020, the DOJ updated its 2015 business review letter to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (“IEEE”) standard development organization (“SDO”) that evaluated the IEEE then-imminent revision…

Standards, Patents, and Antitrust Policy: The Road Ahead
 |  Dec 21, 2020

Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) have been at the center of a controversial debate for almost two decades. Recent developments have provided clarity on some of the most disputed issues. Courts…

The UK’s Role as a Venue for FRAND Litigation: Have the UK Courts Gone Far Enough?
 |  Dec 21, 2020

The licensing of SEPs for cellular mobile technology is a global matter — standards, technologies, and the scope of many licensees’ operations are global or at least multi-national. Unfortunately, there…

Parallels and Diverging Approaches in the UK and German Supreme Courts’ Decisions on FRAND
 |  Dec 21, 2020

In this paper, I discuss the German Federal Court of Justice’s decision in Sisvel v. Haier and the UK Supreme Court decision in Unwired Planet v. Huawei as well as…

How and Why Almost Every Competition Regulator Was Wrong About Standard-Essential Patents
 |  Dec 21, 2020

Since approximately the mid-2000s, competition regulators have largely adhered to a consensus according to which standard-essential patents pose an inherently high risk of anticompetitive effects in wireless communications markets. Based…

Artificial Intelligence and Antitrust in a Post-Qualcomm World
 |  Dec 21, 2020

The questions in FTC v. Qualcomm are consequential in setting competitive norms in an economy anxious about the exercise of market power. Like many other antitrust cases, this one shows…

The New Landscape in FRAND Litigation
 |  Dec 21, 2020

2020 marked a turning point in global FRAND litigation: three judgments by the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – “BGH”) of Germany, the Supreme Court of the UK, and the…

Managing Distribution and Compliance in China: Post the Auto Antitrust Guidelines
 |  Dec 20, 2020

By Ken Dai & Jet Deng (Dentons)1   In September 2020, China’s central antitrust enforcement authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”), released four antitrust guidance documents all at…

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