The relationship between the legal exclusivity and economic market power : links and limits / Josef Drexl -- Intellectual property and sources of market power / Mark R. Patterson -- Controlling the unilateral exercise of intellectual property rights : a multitude of approaches but no way ahead?...

As a framework regulation for innovation markets, the patent system needs to be tailored to the innovation process, which it is supposed to serve, and to the competitive environment, within which it must operate. In order to ensure an efficient functionality of the patent system as an innovation...

To the difference of trademarks and designs, protection of patents in Europe essentially rests on national law only. The 'European patent' as granted by the European Patent Organization through the European Patent Office, while internationally uniform as to the conditions of the grant,...

The Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law endorses the Commission's plans for a Community patent, which promises several key advantages as compared to fragmented rights under the EPC system. The Institute likewise endorses the general structure for patent...