Anticompetitive Acts in Standard-Setting Organizations

September 28, 2006

Source: The New York Law Journal. Reprinted with permission.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that deceiving a technology standard-setting organization could constitute unlawful exclusionary conduct while a district court decided that allegations of failure to honor a promise made to such an organization did not state an antitrust claim.

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