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Read our current issue: Volume 13, Issue 3 - Summer 2008

Patent and Antitrust: Different Shades of Meaning
By Robin Feldman
The relationship between patent law and antitrust law has challenged legal minds since the emergence of antitrust law in the late nineteenth century. In reductionist form, the two concepts pose a natural contradiction: One encourages monopoly, while the other restricts it. To avoid uncomfortable dissonance, the trend across time has been to try to harmonize patent ...
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