European Competition Law Annual 2005: The Interaction between Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law (European Competition Law Annual)

768 Pages·2007·2.72 MB·English

by  Claus-Dieter Ehlermann

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL 2005:
The Interaction between Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL:
2005
The Interaction between Competition Law and
Intellectual Property Law
Edited by
Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
and
Isabela Atanasiu
OXFORD – PORTLAND OREGON
2007
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P E R M A N E N T S P O N S O R S O F T H E
A N N UA L E U I C O M P E T I T I O N
WO R K S H O P S
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Contact: Calvin S. Goldman, QC
Commerce Court West
199 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5L 1A9
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Cleary Gottlieb
Contact: Mario Siragusa
Rome Office
Piazza di Spagna 15
I-00187 Rome
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Hengeler Müller
Contact: Jochen Burrichter
Benrater Strasse 18-20
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany
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Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP
Contact: James F. Rill, Esq.
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Washington, DC 20004
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vi Permanent Sponsors of the Annual EUI Competition Workshops
Martinez Lage & Asociados
Contact: Santiago Martínez Lage
Claudio Coello 37 - 28001 Madrid
Tel [phone] –
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Skadden
Contact: Barry Hawk
Brussels Office
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White & Case LLP
Contact: Ian S. Forrester, QC
Brussels Office
62, rue de la Loi
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WilmerHale
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1 0 T H A N N UA L E U C O M P E T I T I O N L AW
A N D P O L I C Y WO R K S H O P :
T H E I N T E R AC T I O N B E T W E E N
C O M P E T I T I O N L AW A N D
I N T E L L E C T UA L P RO P E RT Y L AW
3–4 June 2005, EUI Florence
Participants
Abbott Alden, Federal Trade Commission, Washington DC, USA.
Allendesalazar Corcho Rafael, Martínez Lage & Asociados, Madrid, Spain.
Amato Giuliano, Minister of Home Affairs of Italy, former President of the
Italian Antitrust Authority and former Professor of Law at the European
University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Anderman Steven, University of Essex, School of Law, Essex, UK.
Bishop Simon, RBB Economics, London, UK.
Burrichter Jochen, Hengeler Müller, Düsseldorf, Germany.
DrexlJosef,Institute for International Law at the University of Munich, and
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property,
Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany.
Dreyfuss Rochelle, New York University, School of Law, New York, USA.
Durand Benoît, Chief Economist Team, DG Competition, European
Commission—Brussels, Belgium.
Ehlermann Claus-Dieter, WilmerHale, Brussels, former Professor of Law at
the EUI, and forner Director General of the Legal Service and
Competition Directorate at the European Commission, Brussels.
Fels Allan, Dean of the The Australia and New Zealand School of
Government (ANZSOG), Melbourne, Australia.
Fingleton John, Chief Executive, Office of Fair Trading, London, UK, and
former Chairman of the Irish Competition Authority, Dublin, Ireland.
Forrester Ian,White and Case, Brussels, Belgium.
Fox Eleanor, New York University, School of Law—New York, USA.
Ghidini Gustavo, LUISS University, andDirector of the Osservatorio di pro-
prietà intelletuale, concorrenza e communicazioni—Rome, Italy.
Goldman Calvin, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Toronto, Canada.
Jenny Frédéric, Department of Economics, and Director of International
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viii List of Participants at the 2005 Workshop
Relations, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France, former Vice-President
of the French Competition Council.
Kjøelbye Lars, Deputy Head of Unit Enforcement Priorities and Decision
Scrutiny, DG Competition, European Commission—Brussels, Belgium.
Komninos Assimakis, White & Case, Brussels, Belgium.
Lowe Philip, Director General, DG Competition, Brussels, Belgium.
Melamed Douglas, WilmerHale, Washington DC, USA.
Mestmäcker Ernst-Joachin,Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und inter-
nationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, Germany.
Newman Penny, Chief of Antitrust, Bertelsmann AG, Brussels, Belgium.
Pate Hewitt, Hunton & Wiliams, Washington DC, formerAssistant Attorney
General, US Department of Justice, Washington DC, USA.
Peeperkorn Luc, DG Competition, Policy Development Unit, Technology
Transfer Review, Brussels, Belgium.
Platt Majoras Deborah, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission,
Washington DC, USA.
Plompen Peter,Plompen Law, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Rey Patrick, Institut d’économie industrielle, Université des Sciences
Sociales, Toulouse, France.
Rill James,Howrey LLP, Washington DC, USA.
Schweitzer Heike, Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales
Privatrecht, Hamburg, Germany.
Siragusa Mario, Cleary Gottlieb, Rome, Italy.
Ullrich Hanns, Law Department, European University Institute, Florence,
Italy.
Venit James, Skadden, Brussels, Belgium.
Vinje Thomas,Clifford Chance, Brussels, Belgium.
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C O N T E N T S
List of Sponsors v
Participants vii
Table of Cases xiii
INTRODUCTION xxvii
SESSION ONE: GENERAL ASPECTS 1
1 PANELI:TOWHATEXTENTDOESIP REQUIRE/JUSTIFY
ASPECIALTREATMENTUNDERCOMPETITIONRULES? 3
Discussion 3
PANELII:A CRITICALEXAMINATIONOFTHETTBLOCKEXEMPTION
REGULATIONANDTTGUIDELINES 34
Discussion 34
2 Working Papers 47
I R. Hewitt Pate:Competition and Intellectual Property
in the US:Licensing Freedom and the Limits of Antitrust 49
II Ian S. Forrester QC: Regulating Intellectual Property
Via Competition? Or Regulating Competition Via
Intellectual Property? Competition and Intellectual
Property:Ten Years On, The Debate Still Flourishes 59
III Philip Lowe and Luc Peeperkorn: Intellectual
Property:How Special is its Competition Case? 91
IV Gustavo Ghidini and Emanuela Arezzo:
On the Intersection of IPRs and Competition Law With
Regard to Information Technology Markets 105
V Rochelle Dreyfuss: Unique Works/Unique Challenges
at the Intellectual Property/Competition Law Interface 119
VI Simon Bishop and Dan Gore: From Black and White
to Enlightenment?An Economic View of the Reform of
ECCompetition Rules on Technology Transfer 141
VII Lars Kjøelbye and Luc Peeperkorn: The New
Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation
and Guidelines 161
VIII Steven Anderman: Technology Transfer and the
IP/Competition Interface 211
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x Contents
SESSION TWO: SELECTED PROBLEM AREAS 237
1 PANELIII:PATENTPOOLS 239
Discussion 239
PANELIV:COLLECTINGSOCIETIES 254
Discussion 254
2 Working Papers 271
I A. Douglas Melamed and David Lerch:Uncertain
Patents, Antitrust, and Patent Pools 273
II Peter Plompen: The New Technology Transfer
Guidelines (TTG)as Applied to Patent Pools and
Patent Pool Licensing: Some Observations Regarding
the Concept of ‘Essential Technologies’ 295
III Hanns Ullrich: Patent Pools:Approaching a Patent
Law Problem ViaCompetition Policy 305
IV Allan Fels, AO and Jill Walker: Australian Intellectual
Property Law, Competition and Collecting Societies:
Efficiency, Monopoly, Competition and Regulation 329
V Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker: Collecting Societies 343
VI Frédéric Jenny: ECCompetition Law Enforcement and
Collecting Societies for Music Rights:What Are We
Aiming For? 361
VII Rafael Allendesalazar and Roberto Vallina:
Collecting Societies:The Usual Suspects 371
VIII Thomas Vinje and Ossi Niiranen: The Application
of Competition Law to Collecting Societies in a
Borderless Digital Environment 399
SESSION THREE: SELECTED PROBLEM AREAS
(CONTINUED) 419
1 PANELV:INTELLECTUALPROPERTYANDMERGERCONTROL 421
Discussion 421
PANELVI:ABUSEOFDOMINANCEINLICENSINGANDREFUSALTO
LICENSE 439
Discussion 439
2 Working Papers 461
I Deborah Platt Majoras:The Role of Intellectual
Property in Merger Review:Recent Cases from the
USAntitrust Enforcement Agencies 463
II Benoît Durand: Intellectual Property and Merger
Control:Review of the Recent Experience under the
European Merger Regulation 475