Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Competition Law - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849800774 ISBN 13: 9781849800778

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

`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.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Josef Drexl, Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany

Review:

`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

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849800774
• ISBN 13: 9781849800778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Drexl Josef