EU Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: The Regulation of Innovation

Name: EU Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: The Regulation of Innovation | The Regulation of Innovation
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The Regulation of Innovation

Hedvig Schmidt Steven Anderman(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 17. Februar 2011

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Widely read and appreciated in its first edition by students, academics and junior practitioners, this was the first book to offer an accessible introduction to the interface between competition law and intellectual property rights. Now fully updated, but retaining the accessible approach, it continues to represent an ideal gateway to this increasingly dynamic interface, offering a sound introduction to the topic based on thorough legal analysis. It provides a foundation to EU competition law rules as they relate to intellectual property rights, and explores how such a template can be applied to existing intellectual property rights and adapted to new technologies such as telecommunications and information technology. Itdemonstrates how, both under the EU law and as a matter of economic policy, EU competition law must provide a set of outer limits to, and a framework of rules which regulate, the exploitation and licensing of intellectual property rights. A group of landmark cases since the first edition - the Microsoft case and its predecessor concerned with database rights, the IMS case - has extended the scope of Article 102 TFEU to a refusal to license interface codes. Article 102 has also been applied in the Astra Zeneca case to regulate the behaviour of pharmaceutical companies and the pharmaceutical sector has recently experienced a sectoral enquiry. Finally, the field of industrial standards, patent ambushes and FRAND obligations hasbecome the subject of competition law scrutiny. Under Article 101 TFEU, the modernisation reforms and the new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation 772/2004 together with the Technology Transfer Guidelines have quite radically reformed the method that lawyers must use when analysing the limitsof clauses in intellectual property licensing. It requires greater economic understanding, offers less legal certainty but allows more flexibility than its predecessor. The book offers a comprehensive insight to these new developments in a textbook style ideal for those approaching the subject for the first time, or a useful reference for those with more experience.

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Intro
CONTENTS
TABLES OF CASES
TABLES OF LEGISLATION AND RELATED INSTRUMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 EU Competition Law as a System of Regulation of Intellectual Property Rights
1.2 Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights: The Innovation Policy Context
2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COMPETITION LAW UNDER THE TREATY
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Grant and 'Existence'
2.3 Permitted and Prohibited Exercise of Intellectual Property Rights
2.4 The Objectives of the Rules on Competition in the Treaty
2.5 Effective Competition
2.6 The Goal of Fair Competition
2.7 The Goal of Integration
PART II: ARTICLE 102 AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
3. ARTICLE 102 AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
4. THE RELEVANT MARKET AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Relevant Product Market
4.3 The Relevant Geographic Market
5. THE CONCEPT OF DOMINANCE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Dominance and Intellectual Property Rights
5.3 The Methods of Assessing Dominance
5.4 Dominance, Intellectual Property Rights, and Barriers to Entry
5.5 A Note on Ordinary and Special Dominance
6. THE CONCEPT OF ABUSE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
6.1 The Expansion of the Concept of Abuse under Article 102 from Exploitative to Exclusionary Conduct
6.2 The Expanded Concept of Abuse and Restrictions on Intellectual Property Rights
7. REFUSALS TO SUPPLY AND LICENSE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
7.1 Refusals to Supply: The Court of Justice and Commission
7.2 From Refusal to Supply to Refusal to License: The Commission Decisions
7.3 Magill and the 'Exceptional Circumstances' Test
7.4 Refusals to Continue to License or Supply Interface Information on an 'Aftermarket'
7.5 The Microsoft Case in Europe and 'Exceptional Circumstances'
7.6 Competition and IP Remedies
7.7 The Pricing of Compulsory Licensing
8. TYING
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The EU Courts' Approach to Tying in Case Law
8.3 Tying and Intellectual Property Rights
9. EXCESSIVE PRICING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Article 102(a) Generally
9.3 Article 102(a) and Intellectual Property Rights
9.4 Dual Markets, Intellectual Property Rights, and Unfair Pricing
9.5 Collecting Societies and Excessive Pricing
9.6 Conclusion
10. EXCLUSIONARY PRICING POLICIES: DISCRIMINATORY PRICING, REBATES, AND DISCOUNTS
10.1 Discriminatory Pricing
10.2 Conditional Rebates in a Single Market
11. EXCLUSIONARY PRICING: PREDATORY PRICING AND MARGIN SQUEEZE
11.1 Predatory Pricing
11.2 Margin Squeeze
PART III: ARTICLE 101 AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSING IN A MODERNIZED SETTING
12. INTRODUCTION: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS LICENSING AND COMPETITION POLICY GENERALLY
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Modernization of EU Law Applicable to IP Licensing Agreements
12.3 The New Analytical Tools Provided by the New More Economic Approach
13. THE STRUCTURE OF ARTICLE 101 TFEU AND IP LICENSING AGREEMENTS
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Process of Exemption under Article 101(3) TFEU
13.3 Article 101(2) TFEU And Unenforceability
13.4 The Clearance of IP Licensing Agreements under Article 101(1) TFEU
14. THE JUDICIAL CONCEPT OF RESTRICTION OF COMPETITION AND IPR LICENSING
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Judicial Authority before Modernization
14.3 The Scope of the Patent Doctrine and Restriction on Competition
14.4 The Consten and Grundig Judgment
14.5 The Commission's Change of Policy
14.6 The Court of Justice's Application of the Appreciability Test to Intellectual Property Rights
15. THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BLOCK EXEMPTION REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AGREEMENT GUIDELINES
15.1 Introduction: The Evolution of EU Competition Policy towards IP Licensing Agreements
15.2 The Current Phase
15.3 The Main Features of the New Technology Transfer Regulation and Guidelines
15.4 The New Methods of Assessing Individual Restraints in Licensing Agreements outside the Safe Harbour of the TTBER
16. THE REGULATION OF TERRITORIAL RESTRAINTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT LICENSING AGREEMENTS UNDER ARTICLE 101 TFEU
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Exemptible Exclusive Territoriality
16.3 Field of Use Restrictions
17. THE REGULATION OF NON-TERRITORIAL RESTRAINTS IN LICENSING AGREEMENTS
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Non-Territorial Restraints which are Non-Restrictive of Competition
18. TECHNOLOGY POOLS, INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS, AND TTBER
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Stage 1: The Product Formulation Stage
18.3 Stage 2: The Creation of the Standard and the Selection of Essential Patents
18.4 Stage 3: Licensing Out
18.5 The FRAND Commitments
18.6 The Legal Framework for Technology Pools and Standardization Agreements
18.7 Technology Pools, TTBER, and Guidelines
18.8 The Competition Concerns and the Creation of the Pool
18.9 The Assessment of Individual Restraints
18.10 The Institutional Framework Governing the Pool
18.11 Conclusions
19. REMEDIES
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Remedies Applied to Article 102 Cases
19.3 Article 101 Remedies
19.4 Commitment Decisions
19.5 Fines and Penalties
19.6 Conclusion
20. CONCLUSIONS
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Article 102 TFEU and IPRs
20.3 Article 101 TFEU and IPRs
20.4 Conclusion
APPENDIX 1: Excerpts from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
APPENDIX 2: Commission Regulation (EC) No 772/2004
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