… by limiting the freedom of SSOs to set their own terms would thereby replace private
coordination with government hold-up. We conclude that the FTC should abandon its Proposal and …

… The FTC’s proposal for regulating IP by limiting the freedom of SSOs to set their own
terms would replace private coordination with government hold-up. The …

… , the FTC’s proposal for regulating IP by limiting the freedom of SSOs to set their own terms
would replace private … is a striking evidence of how the FTC vastly overestimates the hold-‐up …

… for comments from the Federal Trade Commission. I thank … selected, SSOs work hard to
promote coordinated investments … and coordination on a particular solution make substitute …

… in terms of both coordinating extensive numbers of patent … that requires legal regime change
or other solutions. This … number of situations where patent hold-up takes place in the context …

… ) are of growing importance as an institution for coordinating … As we demonstrate in Part III,
the fact that SSOs actively change … "the possibility of a reverse hold-up, whereby the patent-…

… of SSOs, this paper will shed light on the problem of hold-up … , and that a change towards
stronger rules is highly desirable.… potentially caught by the Federal Trade Commission Act s.581…

… coordinated transaction mechanism for the parties involved. In this context the institutions of
the intellectual property … , has introduced a drastic change into the patent application system. …

… Commission and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have … of perception on technological
change, the role of governments, and … of the cooperation within SSOs is the coordination and …

… standard-setting organizations (SSOs) on a collision course … SSO, patent owners can “hold
up” patent users in the sense of demanding high royalties for a patented input after the SSO …