Antitrust Bulletin articles from December 2003

Antitrust Bulletin archives from December 2003

IP-antitrust in context: approaches to international rules on restrictive uses of intellectual property rights.(intellectual property)
December 22, 2003... I. Introduction The subject of this session, Intellectual Property and Competition Law Around the Globe, invites us to compare the various national competition laws on the intellectual property/antitrust interface, and to think about rules...

Antitrust intervention in intellectual property licensing and unilateral refusal to license: a comparative analysis of Japanese and U.S. policies.
December 22, 2003... I. Introduction The accelerating importance of technology and information in industries has brought about an era in which the competitive advantages of firms and nations are determined by supremacy in innovation. In order to encourage...

Balancing acts: antitrust for economic development.(response to articles in this issue, p. 837, 885)
December 22, 2003... I. One more round: international intellectual property and international antitrust The TRIPS Agreement (1) and the DSU (2) provide minimum substantive standards for the protection of intellectual property rights and an enforcement...

"Internationalizing" competition policy: an assessment of the two main alternatives.
December 22, 2003... I. Introduction Among specialists who worry about such matters as competition in the global economy, there is emerging a consensus that competition policy increasingly needs to be international in scope. To state the reason for this in...

International cooperation on competition: myth, reality and perspective.
December 22, 2003... Over the last decade, international cooperation between national competition authorities has become one of the hottest topics in the world of antitrust. Tools for cooperation have been developed and there is clear evidence that national...

The vertical dimension of cooperative competition policy.
December 22, 2003... I. Law's fractal geometry Law as an organic system can hardly escape the power law distributions that govern "a wide variety of physical, biological, and social systems." (1) The apparent chaos of the law masks deeply complex structures...

Internationalization of competition policy observations from a European practitioner's perspective.
December 22, 2003... The contributions of Professor F. Jenny and Edward M. Graham provide an interesting overview of ongoing efforts and proposals to "internationalize" competition policy. While certain aspects of this internationalization process are of immediate...

Private anticompetitive behavior in world markets: a WTO perspective.(World Trade Organization)
December 22, 2003... The activities of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with regard to private anticompetitive behavior can be divided into two tracks. The first track consists of WTO activities directed to antitrust law and policy, which the WTO, in common with...