Antitrust Article: Licensing at the Crossroads of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Choosing the Right Road
9/15/2004
Written by Mintz Levin Attorneys, Yee Wah Chin and Kathryn E. Walsh, for The Computer & Internet Lawyer, Volume 21, Number 9, September 2004
This article reviews the general principles in the antitrust analysis of licenses of intellectual property rights and applies those principle to these situations, as well as to some other common types of licenses and license restrictions, in the context of practical counseling.
Yee Wah Chin is a Senior Counsel at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Washington, DC, specializing in antitrust counseling and litigation, particularly in mergers and acquisitions, and in transactions involving intellectual property. Kathryn E. Walsh is an associate at the firm. Her specialty is antitrust counseling, particularly US and international merger antitrust counseling.
