By Irina Haracoglou

Within the broad context of the relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law, this book takes the example of research tools in biopharmaceutical research and innovation to examine the complexities of this relationship, and the ways in which the balance is struck between these two fundamental policies of law. It addresses a question that is certain to become paramount in other industries also: how to strike the balance between initial and follow-on innovation so as to ensure that access to ‘essential’ research tools (or other fundamental elements to follow-on innovation) is not impeded.

Published Year: 2008 Format: Hard Back ISBN: 978 1 84720 599 5 Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing No of Pages: 272 Our Price: £ 62.96 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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