IP/Antitrust policy changes are afoot in the Biden administration’s DOJ

IPWatchdog, Taylor Owings, Jana Seidl, Jacob McDonald and Christa Brown-Sanford, 27 October 2021

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The intersection of intellectual property (IP) and antitrust law is again a hot debate after a recent speech by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s (“DOJ” or “Division”) Economics Director of Enforcement, Jeffrey Wilder, titled Leveling the Playing Field in the Standards Ecosystem: Principles for a Balanced Antitrust Enforcement Approach to Standards-Essential Patents. Before we dive in on the key takeaways from the speech, and our thoughts on potential ramifications, it bears briefly mentioning how we got here.

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