University of Toronto Patent Colloquium FRAND Panel 21 Nov 2014 Background Should antitrust intervene These are the problems that to ensure the success of the standard the FRAND ID: 604290
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Alison Jones
University of Toronto Patent Colloquium: FRAND Panel21 Nov 2014Slide2
BackgroundSlide3Slide4
Should ‘antitrust’ intervene?
These are the problems that, to ensure the success of the standard, the FRAND commitment was designed to prevent (and without
FRAND
the standard setting process itself may be anticompetitive)?
If the
FRAND
commitment is powerless what about competition
law
?Slide5Slide6Slide7Slide8
Objections to antitrust intervention
If the non-innovators have to pay only little and late … it will mean that the profits of the grasshopper companies will be greater at the expense of the ant innovators, who made the grasshoppers’ business possible. And consumers will lose by reason of less future innovation.Professor Sir Robin JacobSlide9Slide10Slide11