Competition policy and prevention of abuses in the TRIPS agreement
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01/09/2005
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Resumo |
The monopoly granted through intellectual property rights can lead to abuses ofsuch monopoly. The TRIPS Agreement recognizes such abuses along with the fact that competition policy can play a significant role in dealing with such abuses. The use of competition policy to deal with the abuse of IP monopolies reguires a discussion ofabuse of the dominant position, definition ot market and substitutability of products and whether the<br />patenting monopoly automatically puts the right holder in the dominant position. The issue of parallel trade and exhaustion of rights also has anti-competitive implications. The introduction of discriminatory pricing along with any ban on parallel trade would lead to absolute market control, market segregation and market exclusion by the monopolistic industries. [JEL Classiffication: K21, K33]<br /> |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
SIPI |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30003483/n20052237.pdf http://www.rivistapoliticaeconomica.it/2005/set-ott/shanker.php |
Tipo |
Journal Article |