Patent Assertion Entities and Competition Policy

D. Daniel Sokol is Professor of Law at the University of Florida, he focuses his scholarship on antitrust law. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Fellow of the George Washington Law School Competition Center, and a member of the American Law Institute.

• 1. Introduction D. Daniel Sokol; 2. Missing the forest for the trolls Mark A. Lemley and A. Douglas Melamed; 3. Empirical evidence on the behavior and impact of patent trolls: a survey Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers; 4. Assertion of standard-essential patents by non-practicing entities Jorge L. Contreras; 5. Patent privateering: the rise of the hybrid patent assertion entities D. Daniel Sokol; 6. Regulating patent assertions Paul R. Gugliuzza; 7. Patent assertion entities in Europe Brian J. Love, Christian Helmers, Fabian Gaessler and Max Ernicke; 8. Treatment of PAEs (patent-assertion entities) under Korean antitrust law Haksoo Ko and Jeong Seo; 9. Patent assertion entities issues in China Meng Yanbei; 10. Patent assertion entities and competition law in Japan Tadashi Shiraishi; 11. Patent assertion entities in merger review in Taiwan: issues of characterization and remedies Andy C. M. Chen.