Commissioner Wright urges hands-off tack on standard-setting groups

(October 1, 2013) -- Some commentators are pressing for the use of antitrust rules to shape the content of standard-setting organization agreements, but FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright is not among them. Commissioner Wright took an opposite position in remarks delivered on September 12 at the new Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason School of Law. He proposed a generally hands-off policy for SSO procedures, even in the hotly-debated area of FRAND injunctions – injunctions growing out of disputes over royalties required by SSO rules to be “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory.”...

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