Antitrust Panel at Law and Society Annual Conference

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

For those attending the annual Law and Society conference later this month (with Berlin a step up from last year's Baltimore venue) there is an interesting antitrust panel-- Market Access, Intellectual Property Rights, and Competition Policy.  The  presentations include:

The New Economic Feudalism: The Expansive Use of Patent Licenses to Destroy Market Competition
Peter Carstensen (University of Wisconsin)

Identifying Norms of Competition in Intellectual Property Law
Shubha Ghosh (Southern Methodist University)

Distribution Restraints: The "Free Rider" Explanation
Marina Lao (Seton Hall University)

Essential Facilities, Infrastructure, and Open Access
Spencer W. Waller (Loyola University, Chicago), Brett Frischmann (Loyola University Chicago)