Antitrust Rules and IP Rights in the European Union and the United States—Towards Convergence

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Mario Todino, Aug 22, 2014

Over the last years a significant number of high profile antitrust cases raising the issue of how to reconcile competition rules and International Property rights have been investigated in parallel by the U.S. and the EU competition agencies. Most of these cases show an ever-increasing level of convergence, although conventional wisdom still suggests that the approach in accommodating antitrust rules and