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From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Standard-Essential Patents


“Josh Lerner (Harvard) and Jean Tirole (Toulouse) have a great paper on Standard-Essential Patents. ABSTRACT: A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included into the standard, become standard-essential…”