acquisitions research around the world. … -- Current State of Affairs -- Pre-Merger Importance: Limited Publications and Anemic Research -- M&A Processes and Research …

's intellectual property, unless a firm has illegitimately gained some edge in the market. And yet, in the context of merger review … tool to change the post-merger market dynamics. Although a remedial compulsory license may achieve the goal of restoring … competition lost as a result of the merger, it may also undermine the merged firm's incentives to innovate. This may undo the very …

the world welfare obtained without mergers and with patent harmonization. Thus, cross-border mergers constitute an …The issue of optimal patent protection is of great importance since the inclusion of the trade related aspects of … intellectual property rights accord into the purview of the World Trade Organization. Hitherto, the literature has focused on the …