Research handbook on intellectual property and competition law / edited by Josef Drexl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drexl, Josef.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property--Economic aspects.

Intellectual property.

Restraint of trade.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the interface between competition and intellectual property law. This work discusses issues ranging from the fundamental to the specific, each considered from the angle of cartels, dominant positions, and mergers. It covers topics including technology licensing, the doctrine of exhaustion, network industries, innovation, and copyright.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1: Competition law and intellectual poperty rights - outline of an economics-based approach; Chapter 2: Is there a 'more economic approach' to intellectual property and competition law?; Chapter 3: The contestability of IP-protected markets; Chapter 4: Assessing the effects of intellectual property rights in network standards; Chapter 5: The new EC competition law framework for technology transfer and IP licensing; Chapter 6: Patent pools - policy and problems; Chapter 7: The competitive effects of patent field-of-use licences

Chapter 8: Patent and know-how licences under the Japanese Antimonopoly ActChapter 9: Unilateral refusal to license indispensable intellectual poperty rights - US and EU approaches; Chapter 10: Patent power and market power: rethinking the relationship between intellectual property rights and market power in antitrust analysis; Chapter 11: Making antitrust and intellectual property policy in the United States: requirements tie-ins and loyalty discounts; Chapter 12: New technologies and mergers

Chapter 13: Limiting IP protection for competition policy reasons - a case study based on the EU spare-parts-design discussionChapter 14: One, none, or a hundred thousand: how many layers of protection for software innovations?; Chapter 15: Development of the economics of copyright; Chapter 16: Intellectual property, the internal market and competition law; Chapter 17: The exhaustion/competition interface in EC law - is there room for a holistic approach?; Chapter 18: Competition policy and intellectual property in the WTO: more guidance needed?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-80141-0

9786611801410

1-84844-385-4

OCLC:

476190703