When Antitrust Gets Patents Wrong: Weak Patent Rights Reward Copycats

When Antitrust Gets Patents Wrong: Weak Patent Rights Reward Copycats

June 1, 2026 · 47 min · Season 3 · Episode 21

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Gene Quinn discusses antitrust and patent rights with Alden Abbott, exploring their impact on innovation and competition.

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Alden Abbott, who is Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and former General Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission. Abbott brings a rare combination of antitrust, intellectual property, administrative agency, and law-and-economics experience to a wide-ranging conversation about innovation policy, competition, and the practical consequences ...

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