FRAND Debate - Policy Shift and Reactions

The dramatic shift in the Department of Justice's orientation on IP policy, as expressed by the top Antitrust official at the DOJ, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim has led a bipartisan group of nearly eighty antitrust enforcers and academics to push back in detail on the policy shift in a May 17, 2018 letter.  Delrahim's response letter issued the next day, which attached an earlier letter in support of the DOJ's shift, suggests that  those waiting for a return to the prior policy on IP may be kept waiting . . . .