The Interaction of IPRs and Antitrust: From the Perspective of Chinese Private Antitrust Litigations

In recent years, the complicated relationship between intellectual property rights and antitrust have drawn increasing attention of Chinese courts in private antitrust litigations. China’s Supreme People’s Court has made great efforts trying to find a balancing approach when assessing antitrust behaviors in the form of exercise of intellectual property rights, by considering both the factors of market competition and innovation in the individual case. Two representative cases, the Transforme