Two Department of Justice officials have made similar suggestions on...
Two Department of Justice officials have made similar suggestions on how standard-setting organizations (SSOs) can promote competition through specific policy choices, Hogan Lovells antitrust lawyer Janet McDavid said Tuesday in a blog post (http://xrl.us/bnvonx). Renata Hesse and Fiona Scott-Morton, deputy…
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assistant attorneys general for the Antitrust Division, outlined those suggestions in separate speeches this month, McDavid said. Hesse spoke at a patent roundtable in Geneva on the ITU’s possible update to a patent policy on standard-essential patents (CD Oct 11 p9). Both noted there were four ways SSOs could clarify intellectual property policies related to the fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory licensing process, McDavid said. Hesse and Scott-Morton emphasized that their statements were suggestions rather than official policies, McDavid said. “However, it has been reported that these suggestions have emerged from discussion between the top economists at the [Federal Trade Commission], [Justice] and the European Commission (including Kai-Uwe Kühn, the Chief Economist at DG [directorate general for] Competition), and represent an agreed approach between them."