By Gustavo Ghidini

‘We in the United States have much to learn not only from Gustavo Ghidini’s careful analysis of modern trends in the European IP regime but also from his thoughtful development of the thesis that free competition should be understood as the overarching principle guiding both IP protection and what we call antitrust law.’ – Rudolph J.R. Peritz, New York Law School, author of Competition Policy in America and American Antitrust Institute, US

This rich and challenging book offers a critical appraisal of the relationship between intellectual property law and competition law, from a particularly European perspective.

Gustavo Ghidini highlights the deficiencies in studying each of these areas of law independently and argues for a more holistic approach, insisting that it is more useful, and indeed essential, to consider them as interdependent. He does this first by examining how competition and intellectual property (IP) converge, diverge, and inform one another. Secondly, he assesses how IP law can be interpreted through the guiding principles of competition law – antitrust and unfair competition – and within the overarching principle of free competition.

Published Year: 2006 Format: Hard Back ISBN: 978 1 84542 135 9 Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing No of Pages: 176 Our Price: £ 44.96 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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