Intellectual Property and Competition Law

Ariel Ezrachi is the Director of the Centre for Competition Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. He is the Slaughter and May lecturer in Competition Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He has published widely in the area of competition law and policy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including EU Competition Law, An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases (2nd edn 2010) and Private Labels, Brands, and Competition Policy (2009).Steven Anderman is Professor of Law at Essex University. He has a special interest in the interface between Intellectual Property and Competition. He has widely lectured and published in the area. Recent speaking commitments on Microsoft have included Oxford University, Stockholm and Rome. He has worked as Expert on Competition Law for the Economic and Social Committee of the EU since 1984 and has advised both the Singapore (2004) and Chinese (2007) Governments on the IP consequences of their competition laws.

• 1. The IP and Competition Interface: New Developments ; 2. Competition within Intellectual Property Regimes - The Instance of Patent Rights ; 3. Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Rules, a Complex but Indispensable Coexistence? ; 4. The Economics of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights ; 5. Competition Law Enforcement and Refusal to Licence - The Changing Boundaries of Article 102 TFEU ; 6. Existence, Exercise and Exceptional Circumstances: The Limited Scope for a More Economic Approach to IP Issues under Article 102 TFEU ; 7. Compulsory Licensing in European Competition Law: The Power of the Adjective ; 8. Refusal to Grant Access to Trade Secrets as an Abuse of Market Dominance ; 9. Competition Law and Innovation - Technological Integration ; 10. Margin Squeezes in Telecommunications Markets ; 11. Pharmaceutical Sector, Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law in Europe ; 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Out of Court Settlements ; 13. Intellectual Property Rights and Market Integration ; 14. Standard Setting Under Section 5 of the FTC Act ; 15. Standard-Setting Analysis Under US Law ; 16. European Competition Law, Non-Practising Entities and FRAND Commitments ; 17. Taking Contracts Seriously: The Meaning of the Voluntary Commitment to Licence Essential Patents on "Fair and Reasonable" Terms ; 18. Hardcore Restrictions in Technology Transfer Agreements under Regulation (EC) No 772/2004 ; 19. Canaries in the Coal Mine: Has Neo-Classical Economics Lost Ground at the Intersection of IP Licensing and Antitrust Law in the United States? ; 20. Shifting towards a dynamic efficiency test? Evaluating licensing agreements under antitrust law

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