Intellectual property law and antitrust policy interact in several important ways. Antitrust policy can shape the nature and value of intellectual property rights by placing restrictions on the acquisition of intellectual property, refusals to deal, and the terms adopted in licensing agreements. Moreover, antitrust policy affects the nature of product-market competition, which in turn affects t...

at a superficial level it seems that owning a monopolistic right is in contrast with competitiveness of the market, and exercising this right will prevent the free trade from being competitive. but the truth is that the existence of monopoly is not always a violation of competition law to be harmful to the trade, quite the reverse, in some cases it interacts with principles of competition law, ...

competition law as a manifestation of economic public order has also extended its controlling shadow on the commercial interactions around intellectual properties. know-how as a specific and little-known example of such assets -at least in iranian law-, isn't apart from the rules of competition law. this research in comparative attitude and regarding the specifics of innovative confidentia...

despite the title of intellectual property law, this legal system differs from the classic property law in several aspects, inter alia, the time of protection, the standards for protection, the scope of protection and the enforcement of intellectual property rights. these limitations and differences are largely because of the economic considerations regarding different kinds of positive efficie...

Intellectual property (IP) protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. Optimal policy depends on the relative strength of these two forces. We give a quantitative assessment of current IP policies. We focus particularly on the scale of the market, showing that as it increases, due either to growth or to the e...

In recent years, supporting intellectual property right has gained more significance. Intellectual property rights could be considered as legal rights resulting from intellectual activities in industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Today, many countries are seeking practical information about using intellectual property to improve economic growth. Intellectual property rights hav...