Petition of the day

By Maureen Johnston
on Dec 22, 2014 at 10:15 pm

The petition of the day is:

Issue: Whether public standard-setting and patent-pool licensing agreements that long predate the Clayton Act’s four-year limitations period may indefinitely be subjected to antitrust challenge based on the defendants’ ongoing collection of royalties, where the plaintiff, a longtime licensee, delays filing suit to challenge those pre-limitations agreements until the market has come to depend upon the licensed technology.