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LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Pranvera Këllezi Bruce Kilpatrick Pierre Kobel E ditors Liability for Antitrust Law Infringements & Protection of IP Rights in Distribution LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/11817 (cid:129) (cid:129) Pranvera Këllezi Bruce Kilpatrick Pierre Kobel Editors Liability for Antitrust Law Infringements & Protection of IP Rights in Distribution Editors PranveraKëllezi BruceKilpatrick KëlleziLegal AddleshawGoddardLLP Geneva,Switzerland London,UK PierreKobel KobelAvocatAttorney-at-law Geneva,Switzerland ISSN2199-742X ISSN2199-7438 (electronic) LIDCContributionsonAntitrustLaw,IntellectualPropertyandUnfairCompetition ISBN978-3-030-17549-8 ISBN978-3-030-17550-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17550-4 #SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2019 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe materialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Preface On behalf of the LIDC (the International League of Competition Law), we are delighted to present the seventh edition of LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, IntellectualPropertyandUnfairCompetition,whichcapturesthereportspreparedby the international and national reporters at the League’s Annual Congress held in October2018inBudapest,Hungary.WewouldliketothanktheHungariangroupof the LIDC of this event and for their dedication and enthusiasm in putting together suchastrongprogramme. The Congress is, in the editors’ opinion, a real ‘one of a kind’ event, bringing togetherleadingpractitionersacrosstheantitrustandintellectualpropertyfieldsfrom awidevarietyofjurisdictionsacrosstheglobe,withdetailednationalreportsontwo topicschosenbytheLIDC’sScientificCommitteeandaninternationalcomparative reportoneachtopic. Ittakesahugeamountofworkandcommitmentfromthenationalreporters,and particularlytheinternationalreporters,toproducetheirstudies,andwewouldliketo thankthemfortheirenormouscontribution,whichisgreatlyappreciated.Thisyear’s Congress brought together delegates from across the world, with national reports from jurisdictions including Brazil and Hong Kong, as well as from across the EuropeanUnionandSwitzerland.Thepurposeofthisbookistosharetheirlearning withawideraudienceacrossthemembersoftheLIDCanditsconstituentnational organisations and with academics, practitioners and students across the world. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed listening to the debate and discussionsthattookplaceinBudapest. TheLeague’sprograminBudapestcoveredtheallocationofliabilityforinfringe- ment of antitrust laws between corporations and individuals. The first part of the book explores the criminal and administrative sanctions available against corporations,companiesorgroupofcompaniesandindividuals,suchasemployees or directors. A detailed international report drafted by Tihamer Tóth, Professor at PázmányPéterCatholicUniversityandCounselatDentons,Budapest,exploresthe majortrendsandchallengesinthisfieldandprovidesanexcellentcomparativestudy ofthiscomplexandchallengingsubject. Thesecondpartofthebookfocusesontheintellectualpropertyquestionthatwas debated at Congress during a further working session. The excellent international report drafted by Nikolas Guggenberger, Professor at Münster University in v vi Preface Germany,exploresthechallengesfacedwhilefindingtherightbalancebetweenthe interestsofconsumersandtheinterestsofholdersofintellectualpropertyrights.This second part examines whether intellectual property rights aresufficiently protected toensureafairreturnoninvestmentsmadebymanufacturersanddistributors.This questioncomesatatimewheredistributionisfacingdeepandradicalchangeswith theInternet. The final reports have now been sent to national and supranational competition law enforcers, which have in the past commented very positively on LIDC reports and their value to enforcers. The works of the LIDC have been a well of practical guidanceforgenerationsoflawyers,whetherornottheyaremembersoftheLIDC, andforregulatoryauthorities. The editors would like to thank all the authors for their contributions and their patientcollaborationduringtheeditingofthisbook.Theywouldliketoexpresstheir sinceregratitudetotheMembersoftheBureau,oftheCouncilandoftheScientific Committee for their kind support and encouragement during the preparation of thisbook. Geneva,Switzerland PranveraKëllezi London,UK BruceKilpatrick Geneva,Switzerland PierreKobel Contents PartI LiabilityforAntitrustLawInfringements 1 InternationalReport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 TihamerTóth 2 Austria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 FlorianSchuhmacherandStefanHolzweber 3 Belgium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 IsabelRooms,Gert-JanHendrix,andPhilippeJonckheere 4 France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 ThierryBoillot,MathildeBoudou,MaudBoukhris,MurielChagny, MartinaIsola,NizarLajnef,AnnabelleLebaudy,LaurenMechri, andGuillaumeMelot 5 Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 CarstenKönig 6 HongKong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 CatrinaLam,CherryXu,andTommyCheung 7 Hungary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 ZoltánMarosiandHargitaÁrpád 8 Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 MicheleFranzosiandOttaviaRaffaelli 9 Spain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 AmayaAnguloGarzaro,ManuelCañadasBouwen, andJuliaSuderow 10 Sweden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 HeleneAndersson 11 Switzerland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 SuzanHacisalihzade vii viii Contents 12 UnitedKingdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 RichardJenkinson 13 Ukraine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 SerhiyShershunandAnnaGarbar PartII ProtectionofIPRightsinDistribution 14 InternationalReport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 NikolasGuggenberger 15 Austria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 AndreaZinober 16 Belgium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 RichardSteppe 17 Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 FelipeBarrosOquendo 18 CzechRepublic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 RadkaMacGregorPelikánová 19 HongKong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 StephanieWong 20 Hungary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 EszterSzakács,DánielArányi,GusztávBacher,BálintHalász, andLászlóZlaratov 21 Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 MarcoFrancetti 22 Romania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Paul-GeorgeButa 23 Spain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 AnnaMaríaRuizMartín 24 Sweden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 JohannaSpjuthandMartinZeitlin 25 Switzerland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 PierreKobel Contributors HeleneAndersson StockholmUniversity,Stockholm,Sweden DánielArányi Bird&Bird,Budapest,Hungary HargitaÁrpád KlartLegal,Budapest,Hungary GusztávBacher SzecskayAttorneys-at-Law,Budapest,Hungary FelipeBarrosOquendo DiBlasiParente&Associados,RiodeJaneiro,Brazil ThierryBoillot Lafarge,Paris,France MathildeBoudou Jean-ClaudeCoulon&Associés,Paris,France MaudBoukhris WillkieFarr&Gallagher,Paris,France ManuelCañadasBouwen Callol,Coca&AsociadosSLP,Madrid,Spain Paul-GeorgeButa Musat&Asociatii,Bucharest,Romania Muriel Chagny Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Versailles, France TommyCheung DesVoeuxChambers,Central,HongKong MarcoFrancetti Jacobacci&AssociatiLawOffice,Milan,Italy MicheleFranzosi Rucellai&Raffaelli,Milan,Italy AnnaGarbar INTEGRITES,Kyiv,Ukraine AmayaAnguloGarzaro BasqueGovernment,Vitoria-Gasteiz,Spain NikolasGuggenberger UniversityofMünster,Münster,Germany SuzanHacisalihzade Lenz&Staehelin,Zurich,Switzerland BálintHalász Bird&Bird,Budapest,Hungary Gert-JanHendrix LinklatersLLP,Brussels,Belgium StefanHolzweber UniversityofVienna,Vienna,Austria ix
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