Published: January 26, 2018
Publisher: IAM
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division has placed standards setting organisations (SSO) firmly in its crosshairs.
In a series of comments at an antitrust event held by the Heritage Foundation earlier this week in Washington DC, Andrew Finch, principal deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust at the DOJ, revealed that the division is investigating whether SSOs balance the interests of both patent owners and the users of IP.