In December 2021, only a few days after U.S. Department of Justice AAG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter took office, and long before the USPTO and NIST had confirmed leadership in place,.
Courts have held that antitrust applies when patentees act beyond scope of patent. But determining where patent protection ends, antitrust scrutiny begins remains controversial. This tension arises today in the legal treatment of conduct involving Standard Essential Patents.
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On June 8, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), announced the withdrawal.