Market Power And Intellectual Property Litigation

Author : Inge Govaere,Hanns Ullrich
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9052014221

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Intellectual Property, Market Power and the Public Interest by Inge Govaere,Hanns Ullrich Pdf

The main objective of the contributions to this book is to bring together two seemingly different strands of thought: the competition-law analysis of the exercise of intellectual property, and the discussion about the proper limits of protection, which at present takes place inside the intellectual property community. Both are burdened with their own problems, particularly so in Europe, where market integration and the divide between exclusionary and exploitative abuses ask for a more dimensional approach, and where the shaping of intellectual property protection is under not only the influence of many interests and policies, but a multi-level exercise of the Community and its member states. The question is whether, nevertheless, there is a common concern, or whether the frequently asserted convergence of the operation and of the goals of competition law and intellectual property law does not mask a fundamental difference - namely that of, on the one hand, protecting freedom of competition against welfare-reducing restrictions of competition only, and, on the other, limiting the protection of exclusive rights in the (public) interest of maintaining free access to general knowledge. The purpose of the workshop held in 2007 at the College of Europe, Bruges, and whose results are published here, was to ask which role market power plays in either context, which role it may legitimately play, and which role it ought not to play. A tentative answer might be found in the general principle that, just as intellectual property does not enjoy a particular status under competition law, so competition law may not come as a white knight to rescue intellectual property protection from itself. However, the meaning of that principle differs according to both the context of the acquisition and the exploitation of intellectual property, and it differs from one area of intellectual property to the other. Therefore, an attempt has also been made to cover more facets of the prism-like complex of problems than is generally done.

Author : United States. Congress,United States House of Representatives,Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983493325

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Market Power and Intellectual Property Litigation by United States. Congress,United States House of Representatives,Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Market power and intellectual property litigation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, November 8, 2001.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754070364991

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Market Power and Intellectual Property Litigation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Pdf

Author : Josef Drexl
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781848443853

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Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Competition Law by Josef Drexl Pdf

The volume offers an outstanding collection of studies on the interaction of IP and competition policy and is highly recommended for academics, graduate students, and practitioners with an interest in more theoretical studies. Ioannis Lianos, World Competition Each chapter in the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Competition Law is written so lucidly that it will be of great interest to law professors and post graduate students of intellectual property and competition law, as well as those interested in innovation and competition theory, and legal practices in intellectual property and competition law. Madhu Sahni, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights This is a book that delivers on its promise. With a strong cast of contributors from a variety of countries, economies and disciplines, it makes the reader wonder how any commercially attractive IP ever gets exploited at all. IPKAT Here it comes: the book that I have been waiting for! This will surely be an inspiring source of knowledge in my Masters Programme in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. While promoting intellectual property protection as an important means for innovations and cultural developments, a critical analysis and a flexible approach to the needs for free creative space and effective competition is crucial. As this book so well illustrates, this delicate balance is no either or. Marianne Levin, Stockholm University, Sweden This comprehensive Handbook brings together contributions from American, Canadian, European, and Japanese writers to better explore the interface between competition and intellectual property law. Issues range from the fundamental to the specific, each considered from the angle of cartels, dominant positions, and mergers. Topics covered include, among others, technology licensing, the doctrine of exhaustion, network industries, innovation, patents, and copyright. Appropriate space is devoted to the latest developments in European and American antitrust law, such as the more economic approach and the question of anti-competitive abuses of intellectual property rights. Each original chapter reflects extensive comments by all other contributors, an approach which ensures a diversity of perspectives within a systematic framework. These cutting edge articles will be of great interest to law professors and postgraduate students of intellectual property and competition law, as well as those interested in innovation and competition theory, and legal practices in intellectual property and competition law.

Author : Nuno Pires de Carvalho
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041160430

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IP and Antitrust by Nuno Pires de Carvalho Pdf

Consumers can make choices because of the differentiation that is preserved by intellectual property. Competition law informs intellectual property, generally with the intent of ensuring that it achieves this main purpose. However, very often, certain public policies relating to competition interfere with the way intellectual property should normally operate, either with the purpose of reinforcing its differentiating role, or with the objective of submitting it to other public goals – such as access to essential goods and services, or in recognition of situations where a given invention becomes part of a technical standard or is deemed dangerous to health or the environment. This book presents eighty cases that interpret the various public policies that mould the interface of intellectual property law with competition law (or antitrust). Although most cases are from the United States - which has developed an enormously wide wealth of jurisprudence in this area - there are also cases from the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, South Korea, India, and Argentina. The author presents the cases under the following general headings: • setting the right dosage (i.e., avoiding too much or too little intellectual property); • setting the standards of differentiation; • refusing to license intellectual property; • licensing (and assigning) intellectual property; • enforcing intellectual property rights; • remedies; • intellectual property in sectors of special public interest; and • technical standards. Revealing in extraordinary depth the tensions behind the values of the free market which intellectual property serves and the variety of responses these tensions provoke, this book may be regarded as a watershed resource regarding the principles and policies that, sometimes coherently, sometimes not, preside over the very complex relationship between intellectual property and antitrust. It is sure to be greatly valued by all professionals in both fields, from practitioners to policymakers, as well as by academics.

Author : Christopher R. Leslie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199749942

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Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights by Christopher R. Leslie Pdf

In Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights: Cases and Materials, Christopher R. Leslie describes how patents, copyrights, and trademarks confer exclusionary rights on their owners, and how firms sometimes exercise this exclusionary power in ways that exceed the legitimate bounds of their intellectual property rights. Leslie explains that while substantive intellectual property law defines the scope of the exclusionary rights, antitrust law often provides the most important consequences when owners of intellectual property misuse their rights in a way that harms consumers or illegitimately excludes competitors. Antitrust law defines the limits of what intellectual property owners can do with their IP rights. In this book, Leslie explores what conduct firms can and cannot engage in while acquiring and exploiting their intellectual property rights, and surveys those aspects of antitrust law that are necessary for both antitrust practitioners and intellectual property attorneys to understand. This book is ideal for an advanced antitrust course in a JD program. In addition to building on basic antitrust concepts, it fills in a gap that is often missing in basic antitrust courses yet critical for an intellectual property lawyer: the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law. The relationship between intellectual property and antitrust is particularly valuable as an increasing number of law schools offer specializations and LLMs in intellectual property. This book also provides meaningful material for both undergraduate and graduate business schools programs because it explains how antitrust law limits the marshalling of intellectual property rights.

Author : Anne Flanagan,Maria Lillƒ Montagnani
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849806701

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Intellectual Property Law by Anne Flanagan,Maria Lillƒ Montagnani Pdf

Professors Flanagan and Montagnani have assembled a volume of essays recognizing that in a global information age, intellectual property is not merely a business asset, but a social phenomenon. The contributors marry consideration of fairness with exploration of efficiency, examination of economics with analysis of equity, drawing upon expertise and examples from both European and American law. The resulting collection will be an invaluable resource on both sides of the Atlantic, and around the globe. Dan L. Burk, University of California, Irvine, School of Law, US Intellectual Property Law examines emerging intellectual property (IP) issues through the bifocal lens of both economic analysis and individual or social justice theories. This study considers restraints on IP rights both internal and external to IP law and explores rights disequilibria from the perspective of both the rationale of IP law and the interface with competition law. The expert contributors discuss the phenomenon in various contexts of patent, trade secret; and copyright, each a tool to incentivize the growth of knowledge beyond innovation and creativity. This timely book will strongly appeal to academics, scholars, and postgraduate and PhD students interested in where and how the balance to intellectual property law is, should or could be set. Policymakers will also find this insightful resource invaluable.

Author : Canada. Competition Bureau
Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Intellectual property
ISBN : 066265224X

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Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines by Canada. Competition Bureau Pdf

Author : Mariateresa Maggiolino
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849809634

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Intellectual Property and Antitrust by Mariateresa Maggiolino Pdf

This book brings to bear Professor Maggiolino?s considerable skills as a comparative competition law scholar on what is perhaps the single most important competition policy issue facing us today - namely, how to use IP policy and competition policy in tandem to further both economic competition and competition in innovation. Professor Maggiolino?s book covers a large range of IP practices by dominant firms where competition law can be invoked, including "sham" litigation and product design, improper infringement actions, predation, and refusals to license. This book is well researched, well written, and completely up to date. Every serious competition law/antitrust and intellectual property scholar and practitioner should regard it as "must" reading.

Author : François Lévêque,Howard A. Shelanski
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1781008043

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Antitrust, Patents, and Copyright by François Lévêque,Howard A. Shelanski Pdf

In modern markets innovation is at least as great a concern as price competition. The book discusses how antitrust policy and patent and copyright laws interact to create market dynamics that affect both competition and innovation. Antitrust and intellectual property policies for the most part are complementary, sharing common goals of promoting innovation and economic welfare. In some cases, however, their distinct approaches, one based on competition and the other on exclusion, come into conflict. As antitrust authorities focus increasingly on ensuring that firms do not interfere with innovation by rivals or impede the pace of technological progress in an industry, they necessarily must confront difficult questions about the strength and scope of intellectual property rights. When should private property rights give way to public competition objectives? When is it appropriate to remedy anticompetitive outcomes through access to protected intellectual property? How does antitrust enforcement or competition itself affect incentives to innovate? Leading economists and lawyers address these questions from both US and EU perspectives in discussing salient antitrust cases involving intellectual property rights such as Microsoft, Magill, Kodak, IMS and Intel.

Author : Lorena Tealdo
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9791220317436

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Intellectual Property and Competition Law by Lorena Tealdo Pdf

It is important to say that innovation influences the market and its operators, especially about competition conditions. One of the most significant technological advances relates to the possibility of capturing a huge amount of information and the rapid processing thereof (two of the main features that make up the phenomenon known as big data). This not only entails the emergence of specialised operators in these activities, but also makes a “data economy” possible. In this regard, it expands the profitability of business models based on data and gives more strategic value to the collection thereof. The increased possibilities of obtaining revenue from the information lends greater efficiency to the strategy of setting a price of zero in one of the markets on which platform-type (two-sided) business models depend. However, the market in which an operator offers its service at zero cost is not free from possible competition problems in parameters other than price (significantly, quality: whether understood as adequately classified information or the level of privacy offered to users). Therefore, the competition authorities must necessarily abandon a price-centric perspective and enter into an assessment of other parameters already foreseen in the Competition Act. Some of the most recent and significant changes that technology has stimulated in the economy have included the appearance of multiple operators that base their business model on the processing of information and can access it thanks to (i) increased digitisation (conversion of physical assets into information), which has enabled digital interactions (unlike physical interactions, they leave a record – information), and (ii) a large volume of information (Internet and sensors). These changes have not only allowed the proliferation of business models based on information processing but rather, in particular, they can be found in those operators that have achieved the most significant success recently (from Google to Facebook, WhatsApp or LinkedIn, through to Uber and Airbnb). From the industrial revolution and until well into the twentieth century, the most important competitive advantage of economic operators was based on their ability to produce and distribute goods or physical products. However, in recent decades, a particular phenomenon has emerged of the transformation of physical goods (atoms) into information (bits). In other words, the physical format is becoming less relevant while the importance of data continues to grow. A trend which, far from disappearing, it seems will become ever more entrenched, with the eventual widespread use of 3D printers. Thus, the most important competitive advantage appears to have moved from production and distribution to information (data) and its management. Multiple economic operators, aware of the growing importance of data, have invested in aspects related to it, particularly in its collection and processing. This has led to the phenomenon known as big data, characterised by the “4 Vs”: volume, variety, velocity (of processing) and veracity. In any case, without addressing at this time privacy considerations, data collection requires an investment meaning that any operator that has such data enjoys a competitive advantage. These large data sets are becoming a core asset in the economy, fostering new industries, processes and products and creating significant competitive advantages.

Author : Katarzyna Czapracka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849803267

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Intellectual Property and the Limits of Antitrust by Katarzyna Czapracka Pdf

An excellent account of practice on both sides of the Atlantic regarding the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property rights. The author provides a detailed account of the legal discussion in an economics-informed manner. A must read, as far as I am concerned, for practitioners and academicians alike. Petros C. Mavroidis, Columbia Law School, New York, US, University of Neuch'tel, Switzerland and CEPR, UK This book examines the growing divergences between the EU and the US in their approach to antitrust law enforcement, particularly where it relates to intellectual property (IP) rights. The scope of US antitrust law as defined in the Supreme Court s decisions in Trinko and Credit Suisse Securities is much narrower than the scope of EU competition law. US antitrust enforcers have become increasingly reluctant to apply antitrust rules to regulated markets, whereas the European Commission has consistently used EU competition rules to correct the externalities resulting from government action. The contrasting approaches adopted by US and EU antitrust enforcers to these issues, as with the differences in addressing market dominance, have had a profound impact on the scope of antitrust intervention in the IP field. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relevant recent developments on both sides of the Atlantic and identifies the pitfalls of regulating IP through competition rules. With a unique comparative perspective, this book will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate students, academics and practitioners in IP and competition law.

Author : Gabriella Muscolo,Marina Tavassi
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041186904

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The Interplay Between Competition Law and Intellectual Property by Gabriella Muscolo,Marina Tavassi Pdf

Although competition law and intellectual property are often interwoven, until this book there has been little guidance on how they work together in practice. As the intersection between the two fields continues to grow worldwide, both in case law and in regulation, the book's markets-based approach, focusing on sectors such as pharmaceuticals, IT, telecoms, energy and agriculture in eleven of the world's most active jurisdictions, provides a much-needed in-depth understanding of how this interplay reveals itself among the different legal systems. Written by a range of authors including judges, regulators, academics, economists and practitioners in both fields, the book provides an international comparative perspective as well as detailed analysis of specific cases, policies and proposals for change. Among the issues and topics covered are the following: – free movement of goods and the protection of intellectual property rights; – standard essential patents & injunction in patent cases; – intellectual property rights between technological development and consumer protection; – geo-blocking; – online platforms and antitrust; – excessive prices. In this context, special attention is paid throughout to the increasing dialogue among Competition Authorities and between Judges and Competition Authorities around the world. As matchless remedy for the lack of uniformity heretofore, the book's investigation of the nexus between competition law and intellectual property in different sectors and in various countries takes a giant step towards a more-balanced approach and more-levelled regulation and practices. It will be warmly appreciated by policy makers, decision makers, regulators, practitioners and academics in both competition law and intellectual property fields

Author : Gary Myers
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064189850

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The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property by Gary Myers Pdf

As intellectual property has grown in importance, the interaction between antitrust law and intellectual property has developed into a crucial part of the legal landscape. This new text is the first casebook expressly designed for a course on the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law or for an advanced seminar on intellectual property misuse. It may also be suitable for supplemental use in a course on intellectual property, licensing, or litigation. Written by a professor who has worked in both the antitrust and intellectual property fields for over two decades, the casebook addresses both the rights of authors and inventors and the interest of society in promoting competition, expanding its base of knowledge, improving technology, and protecting consumer welfare.

Author : Ashish Bharadwaj,Vishwas H. Devaiah,Indranath Gupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811312328

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Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology by Ashish Bharadwaj,Vishwas H. Devaiah,Indranath Gupta Pdf

This open access edited book captures the complexities and conflicts arising at the interface of intellectual property rights (IPR) and competition law. To do so, it discusses four specific themes: (a) policies governing functioning of standard setting organizations (SSOs), transparency and incentivising future innovation; (b) issue of royalties for standard essential patents (SEPs) and related disputes; (c) due process principles, procedural fairness and best practices in competition law; and (d) coherence of patent policies and consonance with competition law to support innovation in new technologies. Many countries have formulated policies and re-oriented their economies to foster technological innovation as it is seen as a major source of economic growth. At the same time, there have been tensions between patent laws and competition laws, despite the fact that both are intended to enhance consumer welfare. In this regard, licensing of SEPs has been debated extensively, although in most instances, innovators and implementers successfully negotiate licensing of SEPs. However, there have been instances where disagreements on royalty base and royalty rates, terms of licensing, bundling of patents in licenses, pooling of licenses have arisen, and this has resulted in a surge of litigation in various jurisdictions and also drawn the attention of competition/anti-trust regulators. Further, a lingering lack of consensus among scholars, industry experts and regulators regarding solutions and techniques that are apposite in these matters across jurisdictions has added to the confusion. This book looks at the processes adopted by the competition/anti-trust regulators to apply the principles of due process and procedural fairness in investigating abuse of dominance cases against innovators.