The phrase 'international competition law' is something of a misnomer. There is no supranational authority charged with generating, applying, or enforcing competition law, there are almost no binding international agreements on the subject, and there are no international requirements with...

The governance of competition on global markets is an open policy question (lack of international competition policy). In this paper, it is analyzed to what extent different types of regulatory competition, which in other regulatory contexts (as, e.g., corporate law) can be beneficial, might...

In July 2004, the Working Group on Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy at WTO was made inactive post decision by General Council at Cancun as the proposal to have a formal multilateral framework to enhance the contribution of competition policy to international trade and development...

This article starts with the cautionary note that an alternative approach for international cooperation in competition law and policy is needed. After the Doha Trade Talk, negotiations about this issue reached a deadlock, so there is no longer any prospect of the WTO assuming this responsibility...

The article, written jointly by a law professor and political science professor, endeavors to explain why the United States is particularly resistant to various efforts at international harmonization of antitrust law. While others have wrangled with this question over the years, none has...

EU has been the protagonist in promoting the internationalization of competition laws based on EU competition law norms. The development of China's Antimonopoly Law shows that EU has succeeded so far in establishing itself as the main reference point for China's competition regulation. The...

A trademark can be not only a word or logo, but also a color, sound, three-dimensional object, and many other nontraditional items. Corporations are increasingly seeking nontraditional trademark protection instead of or in addition to traditional patents and/or copyrights. They are also...

Given the rudimentary nature of the current set of EU rules, the regulation of trademark transactions in the EU depends on a harmonious interplay of harmonized EU law on the one hand, and individual national laws on the other. This configuration of the system places a particular responsibility...

Contemporary analysis of trademark rights rests on the premise that consumer confusion constitutes the primary, if not the sole, rational basis of protection. Dilution theory has gradually come to be considered an almost undesired exception to the general rule of confusion-based liability and...