IBIL CPD Course: Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law - The regulation of innovation
Friday, October 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM (GMT)
London, United Kingdom
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UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law: CPD Course
Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law: The Regulation of Innovation
About this course:
The course illustrates the connections among innovation policy, competition law and intellectual property (IP) rights and shows the way in which the law can work as a key instrument of innovation policy. The subjects covered include:
- the economics of innovation policy
- competition law and monopolistic practices involving IP rights
- vertical integration and related licensing practices by IP holders
- horizontal restraints involving IP rights licensing
- mechanisms integrating competition policy concerns within IP law (e.g. the patent misuse doctrine,
compulsory licensing) - the development of international standards for the IP/Antitrust interface (WTO)
- the interaction between competition law and IP rights in specific sectors such as pharmaceuticals,
biotechnology or software.
This course is held on Fridays from 2-4pm
Teachers: Dr Ioannis Lianos, Dr Matt Fisher, Dr Christopher Stothers, Professor Valentine Korah, Professor John Kallaugher
Course Schedule
| 08 October | Introduction to the structure and economics of IP law The law and economics of competition law (antitrust law principles, objectives of antitrust law) |
| 15 October | Introduction to the Law and Economics of competition law and interaction with competition law |
| 22 October | The interaction of competition law, internal market law (exhaustion) and IP in the EU |
| 29 October | Monopolistic practices involving IP rights I Refusals to license |
| 05 November | Monopolistic Practices involving IP rights II Exclusionary practices, product design, interoperability, tying, bundling |
| 12 November | Monopolistic Practices involving IP rights III Abusive IP litigation, use and abuse of regulatory procedures |
| 19 November | Monopolistic Practices involving IP rights IV Excessive royalties/exploitative abuses |
| 26 November | Competition Law remedies in an IP context The Microsoft case study, evaluation of IP rights |
| 03 December | Antitrust Analysis of IP Agreements I |
| 10 December | Antitrust Analysis of IP Agreements II |
| 17 December | Antitrust Analysis of IP Agreements III |
| 14 January | Hot topics in the interaction of IP and competition law Competition law and standard setting organizations: the Rambus case study Anticompetitive settlements of IP rights: the Google books case study |
| 21 January | Compulsory licensing of IP rights |
| 28 January | Patent misuse doctrine, doctrine of equivalents, jurisdictional and procedural issues governing the antitrust/IP interface in Europe and in the United States |
| 04 February | IP (intellectual production) without IP Technology Sharing, Open Source Movement, French chefs, stand-up comedy, the fashion industry and beyond: Challenges to the proprietary model of IP? |
| 11 February | The interaction between competition law and IP I Software industry/sector |
| 18 February | The interaction between competition law and IP II Pharma industry/sector |
| 25 February | Competition Law in the Music Industry |
| 04 March | The interaction between competition law and IP III Biotech industry/sector |
| 11 March | Databases/The TRIPS Agreement and the internationalization of IP |
| 18 March | The Reform of Patent law: towards a more economics approach: implications for the Competition/IP |
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UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL)
The Institute of Brand and Innovation Law was established in 2007, by the late Sir Hugh Laddie, to reflect UCL’s strategy of expanding its activity in the field of intellectual property law. IBIL is based in the UCL Faculty of Laws. IBIL's Director, from April 2011, will be The Rt Hon Lord Justice Jacob who has been appointed to the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in IP Law.
IBIL is sponsored by
(Global Partner) Baker & McKenzie;
(Major Professional Partners) 8 New Square, GlaxoSmithKline, and Rouse; and
(Professional Partners) 3 New Square, Arnold & Porter, Bird & Bird, Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Marks & Clerk, McDermott Will & Emery and Powell Gilbert.
For information about the Institute please see their website at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ibil
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