Refusal to License- Intellectual Property Rights as Abuse of Dominance: 11 (Schriften zur Politischen Oekonomik / Political Economics: Evolutorische ... Aspekte / Competition and Regulation) - Hardcover

Schmidt, Claudia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631610017 ISBN 13: 9783631610015

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2011

Synopsis

Refusal to license intellectual property rights (IPRs) are an ongoing topic within the enforcement of Article 102 TFEU (ex Article 82 EC). Nevertheless, so far an economic founded instrument to analyse these cases is missing. To close this gap, the Innovation Effects and Appropriability Test will be developed throughout this book. Innovation research has been showing that firms rely on more appropriation mechanisms than only IPRs. The availability of these alternative instruments depends on the involved technologies, the kind of innovation, the concerned industry and so on. Consequently, it is in the centre of the Innovation Effects and Appropriability Test to analyse whether the dominant firm could rely on other appropriation instruments to protect its innovation and to recoup its investments in R&D.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631610017
• ISBN 13: 9783631610015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238