International Antitrust and Intellectual Property

International Antitrust and Intellectual Property
Andreas Heinfmann

ISBN 9781841138015
Bloomsbury Publishing

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN antitrust and intellectual property law (the ‘interface problem’) has always been highly controversial. Nevertheless, there has been a considerable change of concepts in the last decades. Whereas in former times the conflict between the two fields of law has been emphasised, today the complementarity between the constitution of exclusive rights on the one hand and the protection of undistorted competition
on the other hand is underlined.