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fixing, group boycotts and exclusionary exclusive dealings. These activities are generally grouped as agreements between competitors (horizontal conduct) and monopolization (single firm conduct). In order to explore the extent to which exercise of intellectual property rights may be considered anti-competitive, the definition must

AIM Critical analysis on when the use of intellectual property rights turns into abuse of intellectual property rights and further analysis on the trend of European competition authorities towards Intellectual property rights with specific reference to what is reiterated in the Magill cases. Introduction Intellectual property rights and competition law both seem to intervene at different junctures; however they work for attainment of one common goal that is consumer welfare. The reasons for this

Pay for Delay Written By: Jed O’Brien Metropolitan State College of Denver at Denver November 24, 2011 For years pharmaceutical companies have been trying to protect their expensive drugs, protected by patents, by paying rivals large sums of money from producing cheaper, alternative drugs. In an article written by Marian Wang, she discusses a particular case in which Pfizer makes “…a deal with certain pharmacy benefit managers … to block generic versions of Lipitor.”(Wang, Pfizer’s Latest

known as intangible rights, which includes patents (inventions of processes, machines, manufactures, and compositions of matter), copyrights (original artistic and literary works of), trademarks (commercial symbols), and trade secrets ((product formulas, patterns, designs). Intellectual property rights has a significant value to both individuals and businesses, providing in the case of large companies, over one half of their value on return. Since intellectual property rights are so important to

Property Rights 3 Industrial property 4 Copyright 5 Controversy of Intellectual Property 5 Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 7 No Electronic Theft Act 9 Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 9 Case Study Involving Intellectual Property – Domain Names 9 Conclusion 11 Overview of Intellectual Property The term intellectual property refers to the innovations of the human mind. Intellectual property rights protect the interests of these innovators by giving them property rights attached to

Direct competitor - MusicGateway and Kompoz • Music Gateway - Direct competitor Music Gateway was established in 2011 in London, which is an online marketplace connecting the creative world and music professionals. Their platform allows users to create and pitch on projects that match their exact needs. We have many things in common with Music Gateway such as we are all online marketplace; we have the same focus field, music industry; we want to provide service which can facilitate the development

Introduction After reviewing the current Service Level Agreement (SLA) between Finman Account Management, LLC, Datanal Inc, and Minertek, evidence was found that security standards necessary to protect all parties were not addressed within the body of document. The following information technology security standards are recommended to protect all parties involved and should be applied to the SLA in this case. For Finman Account Management, the chief concern is to provide guidelines within the

results of eras developing legislation and precedent now transitioning into the current digital age” have left most of us oblivious of how deeply it affects our lives (). The ignorance of the secular world in IP has not come full circle on “what is right” and “what is wrong”. At times it seems as if it was easier to ignore this thing called “copyright”, “patent”, or “trademarks” and keep moving on with our lives. “The digital age changed everything” (). The digital age came new laws to protect copyrighted

Commission is required to look into agreements which are anticompetitive in nature and those found to be anticompetitive are declared void. The Competition Act incorporates an exception for Intellectual Property Rights under Section 3(5) based on the rationale that Intellectual Property Rights deserve to be preserved since a failure to do so would disturb the all-important incentive for innovation. However, it does draw the line inasmuch as it does not permit unreasonable conditions to be passed off

the person who owns the data have power and control over it as well According to Loshin, 2002 "The control of information includes not just the ability to access, create, modify, package, derive benefit from, sell or remove data, but also the right to assign these access privileges to others" Sometimes for the advancement of the science these data ownership have the ability to share the data with the colleagues. so in 1998 Scofield suggest replacing the term ‘ownership’ with ‘stewardship’, “because