FTC Expresses Concern Over Handling of Standards-Essential Patents

The Federal Trade Commission is joining a number of regulators across the globe that are concerned with how courts handle battles related to patents necessary for various technology standards. The FTC sent a note to the U.S. International Trade Commission expressing concern that companies that hold such patents could demand more-than-reasonable royalties for their patents by holding over companies the threat of seeking an exclusion order banning imports of products using the standard in question.