FTC Orders Compulsive Memory Chip License
February 23, 2007
Reprinted with permission by The New York Law Journal.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered a firm found to have deceived a computer memory chip standard-setting organization to license its technology at FTC-determined rates. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that single-use and multi-use dialysis devices should be included in the same relevant product market despite substantial price differences.