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Antitrust, Patents and Copyright

EU and US Perspectives

François Lévêque, Howard Shelanski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2005
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84542-603-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Offering a non-technical introduction to this major topic, this book will be of interest to those practitioners and legal and economic scholars who may only be aware of one side of the conflicting views on competition law and intellectual property law. It will also be of interest more generally to schools and universities of law in the EU and the US.

Edited by François Lévêque, Professor of Law and Economics, École des mines de Paris, France and Howard Shelanski, Georgetown Law, US

Contents: Introduction 1. Competition Policy and Intellectual Property: Redefining the Role of Competition Agencies 2. Unilateral Refusals to License in the US 3. The Application of the Essential Facility Doctrine to Intellectual Property Rights under European Competition Law 4. The Strategic Use of Patents: Implications for Antitrust 5. Innovation, Leveraging and Essential Facilities: Interoperability Licensing in the EU Microsoft Case 6. Adverse Selection and the Legal Protection of Intellectual Property Rights 7. Copyright and ‘Market Power’ in the Marketplace of Ideas 8. Copyright and the DMCA: Market Locks and Technological Contracts 9. Abuse of Database Right: Sole-Source Information Banks under the EU Database Directive Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.10.2005
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Competition Law and Economics series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Wettbewerbsrecht
ISBN-10	1-84542-603-7 / 1845426037
ISBN-13	978-1-84542-603-3 / 9781845426033
Zustand	Neuware