In its Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry Report of 2009, the European Commission identified ‘defensive patent strategies’ as a potential anti-competitive abuse in the sense of Article 102 TFEU. Such strategies include in particular patent filings that may delay the market entry of generic drugs or obstruct innovation activity of other originator companies. Yet the Report refrains from a an in-depth legal analysis of such behaviour. With the objective of clarifying the legal implications of the Sector Inquiry Report, the article analyses the AstraZeneca judgment of the General Court of 2010 as a precedent for assessing the anti-competitive character of patent filings under EU competition law. Thereby, it is argued that patent law does not insula...
The article deals with the intersection between competition law rules on abuse of a dominant positio...
Patentschutz zählt zu den wichtigsten Konzepten der globalen Pharma- und Arzneimittelindustrie: Es b...
In the pharmaceutical sector, firms often build patent portfolios in order to better protect their i...
The pharmaceutical market is a billon euro industry and the competition on the market is highly inte...
This thesis takes its stance in the AstraZeneca judgment from the General Court and the latest devel...
Introduction. On June 2005, after a five year investigation, the Commission imposed a 60 millions eu...
PhDThe concept of strategic patenting is neither new nor inherent only to the pharmaceutical industr...
The thesis reviews current patent strategies of original pharmaceutical companies and their tangled ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of thousands of people worldwide, the problem of tim...
In June 2005 the Commission imposed a &euro&semic60 million fine on AstraZeneca for abusing its domi...
This article examines the impact of pharmaceutical patent protection on the introduction of generic ...
This presentation addresses the question of how patent settlements should be treated under EU compet...
The article scrutinises patent prosecution practices in the ICT sector under Arts. 101 and 102 TFEU ...
The article deals with the intersection between competition law rules on abuse of a dominant positio...
As many have recently observed, competition law enforcement seems to be somehow merging into a form ...
The article deals with the intersection between competition law rules on abuse of a dominant positio...
Patentschutz zählt zu den wichtigsten Konzepten der globalen Pharma- und Arzneimittelindustrie: Es b...
In the pharmaceutical sector, firms often build patent portfolios in order to better protect their i...
The pharmaceutical market is a billon euro industry and the competition on the market is highly inte...
This thesis takes its stance in the AstraZeneca judgment from the General Court and the latest devel...
Introduction. On June 2005, after a five year investigation, the Commission imposed a 60 millions eu...
PhDThe concept of strategic patenting is neither new nor inherent only to the pharmaceutical industr...
The thesis reviews current patent strategies of original pharmaceutical companies and their tangled ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of thousands of people worldwide, the problem of tim...
In June 2005 the Commission imposed a &euro&semic60 million fine on AstraZeneca for abusing its domi...
This article examines the impact of pharmaceutical patent protection on the introduction of generic ...
This presentation addresses the question of how patent settlements should be treated under EU compet...
The article scrutinises patent prosecution practices in the ICT sector under Arts. 101 and 102 TFEU ...
The article deals with the intersection between competition law rules on abuse of a dominant positio...
As many have recently observed, competition law enforcement seems to be somehow merging into a form ...
The article deals with the intersection between competition law rules on abuse of a dominant positio...
Patentschutz zählt zu den wichtigsten Konzepten der globalen Pharma- und Arzneimittelindustrie: Es b...
In the pharmaceutical sector, firms often build patent portfolios in order to better protect their i...