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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, June 3 - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that his company’s attempt to acquire Yahoo was an effort to bring greater competition to the media business and the advertising industry.
“We are trying to give good competition to the market leader in that category,” Ballmer said about Google, his voice […]

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The third panel at the patent, innovation and antitrust conference has begun, and here is the line-up:

Panel III:  The Patent System
“Favoring Dynamic over Static Competition: Implications for Antitrust Analysis and Policy”
David Teece, Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business, Haas School of Business (U.C. Berkeley)
“Rewarding Innovation Efficiently: The Case for […]

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We are on the second panel at the patents, innovation and antitrust conference.
Here is the line-up:

Panel II: Patents as Property Rights
“Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition”
F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis […]

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I’m at the “Patents and the Commercialization of Innovation” conference, and Damien Geradin is speaking about how the various theories of royalty-stacking theories “fail to account for cross-licensing.”
There is a great deal of confusion between the minimum cumulative royalty rate, the maximum cumulative royalty rate and the average cumulative royalty rates that apply to the […]

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Today, I’ll be attending, and hopefully live-blogging, or live-Twittering, about “Patents and the Commercialization of Innovation,” which is the topic of the George Mason University/Microsoft Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation. This is the second annual version of this conference, and it is being held at the Hilton Arlington, 950 North Stafford […]

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