Product Description

This book is concerned with a dynamic area of European law: the tension between intellectual property and EC competition law. It demonstrates how, both under the EC Treaty and as a matter of economic policy, EC 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 (IPRs). It provides a template of the EC competition law rules as they relate to IPRs and explores how such a template can be applied to existing IPRs and adapted to new technologies such as telecommunications and information technology. This new paperback edition now makes it accessible to individual academics and students and will have appeal throughout Europe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #524329 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
Steven D. Anderman is Birkett Long Professor of Law at the University of Essex. He has been a long-standing expert to the Economic and Social Committee of the EU on questions of competition law and, in particular, the technology transfer block exemption and the recent vertical agreements block exemption.