Competition Law and Intellectual Property - LAWS8074
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9230, 5740 or 5265
Excluded: JURD7474
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LLM Specialisation
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Understand the roles of competition law and intellectual property law against their economic background
- Identify the likely complements and conflicts between competition law and various areas of intellectual property
- Identify particular problem areas arising from these two areas
- Understand the conflicts between the differing approaches to these problems in selected jurisdictions globally
Main Topics
- Basics of competition law and economics
- Basics of intellectual property law and economics
- Theory: conflict or complement?
- Misuse of patents to acquire or maintain market power
- Specific arrangement such as patent pools; tying arrangements; standard-setting organisations and issues arising
- Refusals to license by the dominant firm- comparative views
- Industry specific issues: pharmaceuticals; computer software and hardware
- Compulsory licensing (a) as a remedy for other antitrust violations; (b) as a response to social problems (AIDS drugs in Africa
- Collecting societies
This course is taught by Distinguished Professor Michael Jacobs of De Paul University College of Law, Chicago.
Assessment
Essay: 70%
Class Participation: 10%