Antitrust and Intellectual Property
Our team of attorneys who practice in this area have extensive legal experience with technology-driven issues, including the overlap among technology, intellectual property and competition issues, across the United States, Europe, and other international arenas. We are outside antitrust counsel to Via Licensing, the nation's leading administrator of IP licensing programs, and counsel to the Open Patent Alliance, which was formed to accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products. We routinely counsel major corporate clients on issues of bilateral patent licensing, and on cutting-edge issues of competitor collaborations involving IP, in the context of multi-lateral licensing, standards setting, and patent pools. In addition, on a day-to-day basis we both counsel clients and litigate antitrust and IP claims in federal courts, with respect to issues such as Walker Process fraud on the United States Patent and Trademark Office and sham litigation challenges to Noerr-Pennington protection.
Our expertise in this sub-specialty is built from years of hands-on experience with the specific legal and business issues raised by the acquisition, licensing and limitations on the use of IP rights. We have the experience and expertise required to integrate the technical issues into the legal analysis, and to understand the high-level competition and IP law and policy that tends to drive outcomes where, as here,the law is made more through formal and informal guidance, than litigated cases.
For more information, visit Crowell & Moring's Intellectual Property Practice.
For more information about our antitrust IP practice, please contact Jeffrey Blumenfeld, Robert Lipstein or David Schnorrenberg.