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Patent Aggregation: Guidance from the DOJ's Recent Approval Of Three Major Patent Portfolio Acquisitions

August 01, 2012

BY THOMAS P. BROWN & SAMUEL C. ZUN

On February 13, 2012, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced the closure of investigations into three high-profile transactions. This article, originally published in the summer volume of Antitrust, the widely circulated and well respected magazine of the Antitrust Section of the ABA, examines the DOJ's recent approval of these three major patent portfolio acquisitions.