ICT行业中涉及标准必要专利经营者集中反垄断的策略选择

The choice of anti-monopoly strategy in concentration of undertakings related to Standard-Essential Patents in the ICT industry

标准必要专利是ICT行业中的重要竞争工具。我国反垄断执法机构在ICT行业中涉及标准必要专利经营者集中反垄断中的竞争评估结果、批准方式与国外反垄断执法机构在ICT行业和国内在非ICT行业的反垄断存在差异,受到执行产业政策的质疑和选择性执法的臆断。在该领域反垄断过程中,选择合理、有效的执法策略既可以预防或消除集中对市场竞争产生的不利影响,又能消除外界的质疑。结合该领域中近几年的反垄断案例,通过对该领域的反垄断策略选择的现实基础和理论基础的分析,论证我国当前反垄断策略的合理性。并在此基础上提出我国在该领域反垄断的控制策略,完善并兼顾事前控制策略和事后控制策略,提高反垄断执法的有效性。

Standard-Essential Patents are important competitive tool in the ICT industry.In the concentration of undertakings related to Standard-Essential Patents in ICT industry,China’s competition assessment results and approval methods were different with foreign anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies in the ICT industry and the domestic approved in the non-ICT industry.Such discrepancies make the anti-monopoly strategies challenged by the implementation of industrial policies and selective law enforcement.In the process of anti-monopoly in this field,selecting a reasonable and effective anti-monopoly law enforcement strategy can prevent or eliminate the adverse impact of concentration of undertakings on market competition,and also eliminate the outside doubt in the process of law enforcement.This paper combines with the anti-monopoly cases in this area in recent years,and analyzes the reality and rationale of the strategy choice in the ICT industry to demonstrate the rationality of antitrust strategy in our country.On this basis,this paper puts forward an anti-monopoly control strategy to take account of and perfect the ex-ante control strategy and the ex-post control strategy to ultimately improve effectiveness of anti-monopoly law enforcement in this area.