Transactions and practices: UK Intellectual property transactions

Resource type: Practice note

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Jurisdiction: United Kingdom

This Practice note considers the application of UK competition law to transactions involving intellectual property (IP) rights, and to the exercise of IP rights. It examines the principles of EU law that apply to intellectual property rights generally and their relevance in the UK domestic context, going on to consider the application of the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 to licences of patents, trade marks, rights in designs, copyright and computer software.

Oliver Heinisch and Tony Woodgate, Simmons & Simmons

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  • Resource ID: 0-107-3689
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