Global Competition Review Quotes Prof. Cotter on Antitrust Division Policy Change

A September 11, 2020 article (subscription required) in Global Competition Review, titled “DOJ encourages IEEE to consider policy change,” discusses the Antitrust Division”s recent updating of a 2015 Business Review Letter concerning the IEEE’s IPR policy relating to the licensing of standard-essential patents. The article quotes Professor Tom Cotter as stating that the update is “in line with the ‘ideological and highly partisan views’” the head of the division “has expressed on other occasions” regarding the intersection of antitrust and patent law.