Preface

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PREFACE

The Intellectual Property Committee of the Section of Antitrust Law

is pleased to present this second edition of the Intellectual Property and

Antitrust Handbook on one of the most interesting and complex subjects

facing antitrust practitioners: the intersection of antitrust and intellectual

property law. Long viewed as in conflict, today’s antitrust practitioners,

courts, and agencies now generally recognize that antitrust and

intellectual property laws are complementary, as they both seek to

promote consumer welfare by increasing competition and innovation.

This book is the product of the hard work of numerous individuals.

We owe special thanks to Michael J. Lawrence, Donald M. Falk and Jay

P. Srinivasan, who were responsible for marshaling the work of

numerous drafters into a unified whole and have worked tirelessly to see

this project through to completion. We also wish to thank Stephen A.

Stack, Jr. and Patrick R. Bock of the Section’s Books and Treatises

Committee for their efforts in reviewing and editing the Handbook.

Kathleen A. Sullivan also provided helpful input and comments. In

addition, we wish to that the following individual drafters who

contributed their time and expertise to the drafting of this Handbook:

Rob Hallman

Armando Irizarry

Alexander Okuliar

Richard J. Stark

Richard S. Taffet

Christopher S. Yates

Finally, the book copuld not have been completed without the hard work

of numerous people at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Mayer Brown

LLP, especially Jodi Arneson, Armen Adzhemyan, Peter Baumhart,

Christopher Eby, Daniel Emas, Elspeth Hansen, Lindsey Haswell,

Andrew Ho, Shannon Mader, Lilya Mitelman, Kristine Neale, Jonathan

Soleimani, Daniel Storino, and Allison Wopschall. We also want to

thank Cookie Sullivan at Dechert LLP for her word processing talents.