5G and Beyond

5G communications technologies will transform entire industries around the world and are already a core element of the mobile communications and automotive ecosystems. 5G and Beyond brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers in law, economics, and competition policy, drawn from academia, government, and industry, to lay the intellectual foundation for sound innovation and competition policy in wireless-enabled environments. Contributors include former heads of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, commissioners of the US Federal Trade Commission and International Trade Commission, distinguished academics, and industry leaders. Chapters provide economically grounded and empirically informed analyses of the innovation policy issues involved in the development and adoption of 5G-enabled computing and communications technologies in the Internet of Things. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Jonathan M. Barnett specializes in antitrust, intellectual property, and corporate law. He has published widely in scholarly and policy journals, with a focus on monetization strategies and transactional structures in innovation markets. He is the author of Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (2021).

Seán M. O’Connor’s research and law practice focus on intellectual property and business law, especially the role of general counsel for start-ups and commercializing innovation in technology and the arts. He is Faculty Advisor for the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP²) at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University.