Free Download Nuno Pires de Carvalho, "IP and Antitrust: Competition Policies of Intellectual Property in Eighty Cases"
English | ISBN: 9041160426 | 2015 | 504 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Consumers can make choices because of the differentiation that is preserved by intellectual property. Competition law informs intellectual property, generally with the intent of ensuring that it achieves this main purpose. However, very often, certain public policies relating to competition interfere with the way intellectual property should normally operate, either with the purpose of reinforcing its differentiating role, or with the objective of submitting it to other public goals – such as access to essential goods and services, or in recognition of situations where a given invention becomes part of a technical standard or is deemed dangerous to health or the environment.
