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Standards reduce production costs and increase products' value to consumers. Standards however entail risks of anti-competitive abuse. After the adoption of a standard, the chosen technology normally lacks credible substitutes. The owner of the patented technology might thus have additional...
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This contribution discusses open standards in the software industry from a competition law enforcement perspective. While some of the observations may be of relevance to other sectors as well, those will not be addressed here. Open standards, as defined below, may benefit competition in software...
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Governments play a significant role in determining how markets function and use a variety of policies for this purpose, including economic regulation, trade policy and antitrust. Some of these policies (i.e. trade policy and antitrust) in principle promote competition directly, but sometimes are...
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Against the background of the asymmetric mandates of Global Antitrust Institutions (GAIs), this paper explores the potential for juris-generative interactions in the form of legal transplants of antitrust rules and principles from the OECD, the UNCTAD, and the ICN to the WTO through the gateway...
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what terms access to so-called Standard Essential Patents would be granted under EU Antitrust law. However, the question is …
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Traditionally, SDO-based open standardisation and open source standards have been used in different sectors: the (mostly) hardware-based telecommunications industry and the software-based IT industry, respectively. However, the increasing interdependencies within the ICT sector - notably those...
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of the “criminal charge” notion within the meaning of Article 6(1) ECHR. In the present EU jurisprudence on competition … of the position of fundamental rights was sealed by granting the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights of 2000 the binding … force by including this Charter into the EU primary law and by defining the basis for the EU accession to the ECHR (Article …
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