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#264 What’s Wrong With Having Lots of Patents? Patent Thickets and Antitrust Law
#264 What’s Wrong With Having Lots of Patents? Patent Thickets and Antitrust Law
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28 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
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Podcast episode
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It's often said that patent protection rewards innovation and benefits consumers. But are there competition law issues with having "too many" patents? Kate Swisher, an antitrust litigator at White & Case, joins co-hosts Alicia Downey and Lijun Zhang to discuss the tension between patent law and antitrust law in the context of so-called "patent thickets," particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. Listen to this episode to learn how courts are treating claims that obtaining a large number of patents for a single product may be an anticompetitive practice. With special guest: Kate Swisher, White & Case LLP Hosted by: Alicia Downey, Downey Law LLC and Lijun Zhang, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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