Department of Justice Opens Review of ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees

From Antitrust Law Blog: Department of Justice Opens Review of ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees “The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice this month announced that it has opened a review of the 73-year-old ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees. In its press release, the DOJ noted that it is most interested in comments “on competitive concerns that arise from the joint licensing of music by performance rights organizations and … Continue...

Software Interoperability Information Disclosure and Competition Law

From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Software Interoperability Information Disclosure and Competition Law “Qang Yu, Leiden Law School discusses Software Interoperability Information Disclosure and Competition Law. ABSTRACT: Software interoperability information is indispensable in establishing connections among the parts of a program and to applications and users. According to the concepts of copyright...

Antitrust Limits on Targeted Patent Aggregation

From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Antitrust Limits on Targeted Patent Aggregation “Alan Devlin (Latham) has a new paper on Antitrust Limits on Targeted Patent Aggregation. ABSTRACT: Patent-assertion entities, or “PAEs,” are non-technology-practicing companies that aggregate and license patents under threat of suit. Their activities have drawn fire, including Presidential condemnation,...