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DOJ advocacy on intersection of antitrust, IP shouldn't be conflated with enforcement, Delrahim says

By Leah Nylen ( April 10, 2018, 18:46 GMT | Insight) -- The US Department of Justice’s advocacy efforts in the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property shouldn’t be conflated with its enforcement, the agency’s top antitrust official said, citing a controversial 2015 letter on patent policy changes at the standards group IEEE. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim said confusing the two could lead to exporting “unsound theories of antitrust liability abroad.”The US Department of Justice’s advocacy efforts in the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property shouldn’t be conflated with its enforcement, the agency’s top antitrust official said, citing a controversial 2015 letter on patent policy changes at the standards group IEEE....

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