Intellectual Property: Competition
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| 1 | Flowchart guides: Technology transfer block exemption This flowchart guide contains an overview of the application of EU competition rules to intellectual property licensing agreements, focusing primarily on the EU block exemption for technology transfer agreements, and the type of licence restrictions that are or are not permitted. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 2 | Patent and Technological Tying in the US This Practice Note provides a brief overview of the US antitrust law relating to tying practices, with a particular emphasis on patent and technological tying arrangements and recent developments in these areas. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 3 | Standard-setting and competition law This Practice note examines the application of the European Commission Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to horizontal co-operation agreements to standardisation and the joint-setting of standard terms. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 4 | Transactions and practices: EU Intellectual property ... When drafting or reviewing an agreement, it is important to appreciate the conflict that exists between the rules of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) that aim to promote competition and the free movement of goods, and national laws that protect intellectual property rights. The Practice note Intellectual property transactions examines the principles of EU law that apply to intellectual property rights generally; the application of Article 101 of the TFEU to licences of technology (patents and know-how), trade marks, copyright and computer software; and the application of Article 102 of the TFEU to the exercise of intellectual property rights. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 5 | Transactions and practices: UK Intellectual property ... 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. | Practice notes | Maintained |