This book of CASES AND MATERIALS ON INNOVATION AND COMPETITION POLICY is intended for educational use. The book is free for all to use subject to an open source license agreement. It differs from IP/antitrust casebooks in that it considers numerous sources of competition policy in addition to...

The objectives of this paper are to: (i) describe the fining policy of the European Commission for breach of EU competition rules; (ii) assess this policy in light of the criticisms that have been made by academics, practitioners and other stakeholders; and (iii) to the extent these criticisms...

In 2006, Russia amended its competition law and added the concepts of “collective dominance” and its abuse. This was seen as an attempt to address the common problem of “conscious parallelism” among firms in concentrated industries. Critics feared that the enforcement of this provision...

For over a decade, the substantive rules of European competition law have been subject to a reinterpretation commonly referred to as the ‘more economic approach’. This article considers one of the procedural consequences resulting from this fundamental change: Since the EU courts...

Intellectual property rights and competition law are two separate legal regimes having distinct objectives and purposes. Intellectual property rights are the exclusive rights conferred upon the creator or the inventor of the property to use and enjoy his creation or invention exclusively....

In today's competition law context, there is widespread agreement that "consumer welfare" is the guiding principle of competition law enforcement. This article will analyse to what extent consumer welfare plays a role in the assessment of anti-competitive effects in the markets of the European...