Revisiting the Bizarre SEP Level of Licensing Antitrust Controversy
In a brief paper, authors Jorge Padilla and Pekka Sääskilahti of Compass Lexecon explain why this licensing practice is optimal from a social welfare perspective. They show that there is no basis as a matter of economics to conclude that the practice of licensing SEPs at the end-product level only could distort the competitive process to the ultimate detriment of consumers.