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- ISSN: 25189808 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.30875/4445c521-en
The Application of Competition Policy Vis-À-Vis Intellectual Property Rights
The Evolution of thought Underlying Policy Change
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis-à-vis intellectual property rights (IPRs) and associated anti-competitive practices in major jurisdictions over the past several decades. It focuses especially on the underlying process of economic learning that has, the authors suggest, driven relevant policy changes.
Keywords: intellectual property, network industries, anti-competitive settlements, competition advocacy, innovation, mergers, antitrust, international trade and competition policy, standards, patents
JEL:
O34: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights / Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital;
O3: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights;
K21: Law and Economics / Regulation and Business Law / Antitrust Law;
L41: Industrial Organization / Antitrust Issues and Policies / Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices;
L4: Industrial Organization / Antitrust Issues and Policies;
L43: Industrial Organization / Antitrust Issues and Policies / Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
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