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248.9 sec. 001 - Antitrust and Innovation (Spring 2021)
Instructor: Noah Brumfield (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
Instructor: Eric Lancaster (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: Remote Instruction
Meeting:
W 08:00 AM - 09:50 AM
Location: Internet/Online
From January 20, 2021
To April 30, 2021
Course End: April 30, 2021
Class Number: 32140
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 14
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 24
As of: 05/08 05:45 AM

The Bay Area is an amazing place to practice antitrust law! We are home to life-changing innovation. This course will cover the real-world application of antitrust law to the industries pioneering tech and life sciences innovation - to businesses that are literally all around us in the Bay Area. Countless local companies large and small have been involved in high-stakes antitrust battles that have shaped the global technology landscape. These matters are not about legal technicalities. They are about business models, ecosystem and lifecycle strategies, and competing visions for the future of innovation and society. We will explore not only the legal questions but also the economic and public policy issues underlying these matters. In our course, we will cover predatory innovation, FRAND, licensing strategies, big data, networks and platforms, mergers, and monopolization. Our cases will focus on U.S. court and agency decisions and bring insights from non-US enforcement, as well as whatever will be hot in the spring of 2021!
Prerequisites:
Basic understanding of antitrust or industrial economics exposure
Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home examination
Course Category: Business Law
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Intellectual Property and Technology Law
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