Kurz erklärt: nämlich aus Sicht der EU-Kommission, Generaldirektion Wettbewerb. Zwei Angehörige der Kommission haben in einem vorab publizierten Aufsatz für den nächsten Competition Policy Newsletter den Ansatz der Kommission in ihrem Verfahren Rambus dargelegt. Schellingerhout/Cavicchi: “Patent ambush in standard-setting: the Commission accepts commitments from Rambus to lower memory chip royalty rates”.
Ein Zitat (S. 5):
… while the Commission considered that Rambus may have breached JEDEC’s patent policy in its Statement of Objections, an actual breach of the precise rules of a standard-setting body would not be a necessary requirement for a finding of abuse in this context. The finding of abuse would instead be conditioned by the conduct that has necessarily influenced the standard process, in a context where suppression of the relevant information necessarily distorted the decision making process within a standard-setting body.
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