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title: "Independent Ink: Supreme Court Lowers Antitrust Barriers to IP Tying and Bundling Arrangements"
date: 2006-04-26T00:00:00-04:00
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# Independent Ink: Supreme Court Lowers Antitrust Barriers to IP Tying and Bundling Arrangements

  April 26, 2006

Kelley Drye Client Advisory

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kelley Drye’s [Antitrust ](/Our-Practices/Regulatory-Government-Relations/Antitrust-Counseling-and-Compliance)Practice Group has prepared a client advisory. The Supreme Court has reconsidered its prior thinking on the competitive impact of patents. In *Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.*,126 S. Ct. 1281 (2006), the Court decisively rejected the presumption in antitrust tying cases that a patent confers market power. This substantial shifting of the evidentiary burden can be expected to reduce, if not completely eliminate, the routine filing of antitrust tying claims as a counter to allegations of patent infringement.

 

 

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