Avanci’s Admissions Cast Doubt on Pool’s Procompetitive Effects

Patent pools have historically been viewed as procompetitive. And the latest pool receiving widespread attention, the Avanci pool, has gained support for this reason as well. But testimony in a recent case casts doubt on some of Avanci’s claims of procompetitive conduct. Avanci and one of its members were recently sued in the United Kingdom. The court (while finding the result to be “odd”) held that determining what constitutes licensing on “fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory” (�