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?...

The Court of Justice of the European Union has frequently been criticized for its allegedly pro-integration and almost pro-active judicial policy regarding the construction and the application of primary and secondary Union law. This paper aims at showing that, at least with respect to the...

Private enforcement of the European Union's rules on competition (Arts. 101, 102 TFEU) has become prominent as a counterpart to their public enforcement. Mostly, it is identified with tort actions brought under EU-harmonized national law by individuals claiming compensation for the harm suffered...

This position paper of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition provides comments on the amendments proposed by the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection in its discussion draft of January 2020 on the modernization and simplification of the German Patent Act. While...

German Abstract: Die Sorge um eine befriedigende Qualität erteilter Patente wird in der Fachwelt immer wieder kontrovers diskutiert. Bei dieser Sorge geht es sowohl um die Verlässlichkeit des gewährten Rechtsschutzes, die durch angeblich oder tatsächlich zu hohe Nichtigkeitsquoten gefährdet...