Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Competition Law

Edited by Josef Drexl, Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

Contents:

Preface

PART I: OVERARCHING POLICIES AND ECONOMIC THEORIES
1. Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights – Outline of an Economics-based Approach
Olav Kolstad

2. Is There a ‘More Economic Approach’ to Intellectual Property and Competition Law?
Josef Drexl

3. The Contestability of IP-Protected Markets
Andreas Heinemann

4. Assessing the Effects of Intellectual Property Rights in Network Standards
Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt

PART II: CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS
5. The New EC Competition Law Framework for Technology Transfer and IP Licensing
Steve Anderman

6. Patent Pools – Policy and Problems
Hanns Ullrich

7. The Competitive Effects of Patent Field-of-Use Licences
Mark R. Patterson

8. Patent and Know-How Licences under the Japanese Antimonopoly Act
Junko Shibata

PART III: UNILATERAL RESTRAINTS
9. Unilateral Refusal to License Indispensable Intellectual Property Rights – US and EU Approaches
Beatriz Conde Gallego

10. Patent Power and Market Power: Rethinking the Relationship between Intellectual Property Rights and Market Power in Antitrust Analysis
Clifford A. Jones

11. Making Antitrust and Intellectual Property Policy in the United States: Requirements Tie-ins and Loyalty Discounts
Warren S. Grimes

PART IV: MERGER CONTROL
12. New Technologies and Mergers
Josef Bejček

PART V: THE EFFECT OF IP LAWS AS SUCH ON COMPETITION
13. Limiting IP Protection for Competition Policy Reasons – A Case Study on the EU Spare-Parts-Design Discussion
Annette Kur

14. One, None, or a Hundred Thousand: How Many Layers of Protection for Software Innovations?
Gustavo Ghidini and Emanuela Arezzo

15. Development of the Economics of Coypright
Christian Handke, Paul Stepan and Ruth Towse

PART VI: NATIONAL IP RIGHTS AND CROSS-BORDER COMPETITION
16. Intellectual Property, the Internal Market and Competition Law
Stefan Enchelmaier

17. The Exhaustion/Competition Interface in EC Law – Is There Room for a Holistic Approach?
Ole-Andreas Rognstad

18. Competition Policy and Intellectual Property in the WTO: More Guidance Needed?
Robert D. Anderson

Index