Practitioners' perspectives on Competition Law at the IP interface.
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UPC provides more information on how to access the CMS system
European Union, United Kingdom - October 26 2022 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has announced the publication of an updated document “Case Management System. New authentication and electronic…
Ketian v Hitachi: China’s first compulsory Licence?
China - November 25 2021 On 23 April 2021, the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court handed down a judgment which found that Hitachi Metals Co. (“Hitachi”) violated China’s…
CLIP of the month: Defining markets for Facebook and other digital platforms
USA - August 2 2021 This month’s CLIP is a recent thought piece on defining markets for digital platforms from the influential US academic Herbert Hovenkamp, the “dean…
CLIP of the month: Safeguarding pro-competitive collaborations in the life sciences sector
European Union, United Kingdom, USA - March 12 2021 This month’s CLIP is a column by Andrew C. Finch & Stefan Geirhofer entitled ‘Features of Procompetitive Collaborations in the Life Sciences’ which…
Should the patent procurement process fall under the remit of antitrust law? - A US perspective
United Kingdom, USA - March 9 2021 Following on from a recent CLIP of the month post on the lawfulness of strategic patenting under EU competition law, an amicus curiae brief recently…
CLIP of the month: The European Commission draft revised vertical guidelines - no agency protection for online platforms
European Union - January 9 2021 The European Commission recently released its draft revised Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and Vertical Guidelines (see our previous post…
CLIP of the month: Indispensability as a test for abuse?
European Union, United Kingdom - March 27 2020 This month’s Clip of the month is an article (and blog) by Pablo Ibanez Colomo about the vexed question of the relationship between indispensability…
Excessive? Unfair? Court of Appeal reaffirms United Brands excessive pricing test
United Kingdom - March 11 2020 In December 2016, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that Pfizer and Flynn had charged unfairly high prices for…
New guidance on the use of personal data in clinical trials
United Kingdom - July 14 2019 Following the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there has been concern about the extent to which consent must be the…
Further obstacles for Europe’s draft Copyright Directive: Disharmony in the Council of the EU
European Union - July 14 2019 Since its introduction in 2016 as part of the EU’s Digital Single Market (‘DSM’) strategy, the draft Copyright Directive has been batted back and…
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