EC Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: The Regulation of Innovation - Hardcover

Anderman, S.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198259778 ISBN 13: 9780198259770

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Although EC competition law in recent years has dramatically demonstrated its capacity to regulate the exercise of intellectual property rights (IPRs), IPR specialists continue to argue that it should defer to IPR legislation in the interests of innovation. Anderman argues against such an approach and demonstrates how, both under the EC Treaty and as a matter of economic policy, EC competition law must provide a set of outer limits to, and a framework of rules which regulates, the exploitation and licensing of IPRs. This book provides a template of the EC competition law rules as they relate to IPRs; it explores how such a template can be applied to existing IPRs and adapted to new technologies such as telecommunications and information technology. This ambitious book will be welcomed by practitioners and academics alike as a considerable advance in our understanding of the fundamental ways in which competition law is changing conceptual approaches to the law of intellectual property. It offers the basis for new legal argument and will be recognized as a significant contribution to legal and regulatory reform. This book is intended for competiton and IP lawyers, both practitioners and academics.

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About the Author

Steve Anderman is Professor of Law at Essex University. He was previously Reader in Law at Warwick University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198259778
• ISBN 13: 9780198259770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347