FTC concerns with "overbroad" patents should be communicated to policy makers -- staff report.

FTC CONCERNS WITH "OVERBROAD" PATENT PROTECTION should be communicated to Congress, the Patent & Trademark Office, the courts and the Registrar of Copyrights, a Federal Trade Commission staff report on "Competition Policy in the New High-Tech, Global Marketplace" states. "FTC should continue to articulate to intellectual property policy makers the potential competitive consequences of overbroad patent rights and their aggressive enforcement," the report states. "Such a preventive approach is likely to reduce the number of instances in which antitrust enforcers are confronted with the complex task of parsing procompetitive and anticompetitive effects of business conduct involving intellectual property."