Friday, August 28, 2009
Mario Monti on International Competition/Antitrust Convergence and Enforcement in Troubled Times
Keynote address to the American Antitrust Institute Conference “Antitrust In A World Without A Center” June 18, 2009
F. M. Scherer on Patent Policy: Some Recommendations for Competition Authorities
From THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PATENT POLICY REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES: "For the federal antitrust agencies, the extension of patent monopolies in time through profuse improvement patenting and their extension in scope through restrictive cross-licensing agreements pose important enforcement problems. Here too, the problem is in part one of education. Those who manage the antitrust agencies need to learn that there are important barriers to rapid imitation, enhancing incentives for innovation, other than the patent system, so maximization of monopoly rewards associated with patent holdings is unlikely to maximize economic welfare. These agencies need to learn that extension of patent monopolies over time and in scope is more likely to suppress than stimulate innovation. and insisting that drug production be opened up for generic competition once basic patents have expired, leaving however the right to produce validly patented improvement molecules exclusively in the hands of the original drug developer (or any other firm that patents and tests improved variants)"
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Don't look for it in Rome... Nearly two months on, the Commission’s DMA non-compliance decision against Meta was finally published...
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P. Samuelson, here.
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Orf.at, hier (Max Schrems ab 9:34).
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D. Baldacci, here.
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T. Höppner, here.
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Podcast, here.