Panasonic Corporation v. Samsung Electronics Co.
Petition for certiorari denied on January 20, 2015
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.
