Refusals to License Intellectual Property

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84113-873-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Economic analysis rarely appears on the judicial horizon in intellectual property litigation. In competition cases, by contrast, economists are familiar figures in the courtroom and the language of economics is scattered throughout the judgments of even the highest courts. One might expect, therefore, that refusals to license intellectual property would generate the same fruitful symbiosis between law and economics when those refusals surface in competition proceedings. This however, has not been how the law on this subject has developed in most jurisdictions. Courts and enforcement agencies faced with a unilateral refusal to license have instead tended to retreat into sketchily articulated black letter rules and presumptions which then have to be fenced off from the rest of competition law by economically irrelevant qualifications and distinctions based on private law categorisations of, and rationales for, individual intellectual property rights. This bypassing of case-by-case analysis in favour ofamore traditional modes of legal reasoning is not entirely the fault of lawyers. Economists have contributed to this state of affairs by urging judges and regulators to convert empirically undernourished theories about the proper role of intellectual property in a market economy into rules of law and evidentiary presumptions intended to be binding in future cases. How this came about and what it means for the future of effective competition enforcement globally are the twin concerns of this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eagles, Ian

Longdin, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationaler Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Medien-, IT- und Urheberrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Framing the Analysis 2 The Uneasy Cohabitation of Law and Economics in Competition Regimes 3 Fault Lines in Competition Policy 4 Intellectual Property and Competition Policy: Constructing the Interface 5 Refusals to License in the United States 6 Europe's Exceptional Circumstances Test 7 Refusals to License in Australia and New Zealand: Parsing the Hints and Silences 8 Canada: Legislative Solutions and Regulatory Bypasses 9 Reintegrating Law and Economics: Perfecting the Art of the Possible

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Eagles and Louise Longdin hold chairs in law at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand and are Visiting Professors at the University of New South Wales. Professor Longdin is also Director of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand.