Does the FTC Have a New IP Agenda?

Does the FTC Have a New IP Agenda?

Joshua D. Wright, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

4/02/2014
(Original Publish Date: 3/11/2014)

Regarding the approach of antitrust law to Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”), with a focus upon the FTC’s recent enforcement actions applying the antitrust laws to IPRs and FTC policy initiatives involving IPRs, and whether the FTC’s recent activities at the intersection of antitrust and IPRs are simply the extension of conventional antitrust principles that have been applied to real property and other intangible assets for decades or, alternatively, do those activities suggest a new approach to the antitrust analysis of IPRs.