The proposed policy would continue the existing VITA prohibition on any negotiations or discussions at all working group meetings of specific licensing terms among working group members or with third parties.The Department began its substantive analysis by noting that the Supreme Court had condemned activities where SDO members conspired with one another, or manipulated standard setting processes, to injure a horizontal competitor. [read post]

An Advocate General's Opinion from the European Court of Justice on which the IPKat has so far failed to comment was given on 26 October in Case C-412/05 P Alcon Inc v OHIM, Biofarma SA.In 1998 Alcon Inc applied to register the word TRAVATAN as a Community trade mark for phthalmic pharmaceutical preparations. [read post]

 The defendants could have feared that an aggressive new competitor like the plaintiff could erode their profit margins and take market share from them and banded together in an attempt to prevent the plaintiff's entry through a group boycott of any mill that supplied the plaintiff. [read post]

Considering only those companies that made the list, on average, our four portfolio companies face 33 -- yes, that's right, 33 -- competitors in their respective verticals. [read post]