Problemas actuales en las acciones de compensación de daños por infracción de las normas de competencia

La completa atonía del mercado de compensación de daños por infracción de las normas de competencia en Europa ha sido quebrada por son las decisiones de la Comisión Europea de 19 de julio de 2016 Camiones y de 27 de septiembre de 2017 Scania cuyas ...

Competition Law and public interests

principles for resolving conflicts and an application to the banking sector

Should self-regulation that serves public interests be shielded from the cartel prohibition? Or should public interests have a place in the balancing exercise of Article 101(3) TFEU? Is it legally possible to admit anti-competitive mergers when they are still in the best interest of ...

Patentes, marcas y diseño industrial

Junto con la Ley 24/2015, de 24 de julio, de Patentes, que entró en vigor en abril de 2017, se recogen las normas básicas que regulan, en la actualidad, la propiedad industrial. A saber, las disposiciones transitorias de Ley de Patentes de 1986, que ...

Acciones Follow on

reclamación de daños por infracciones del Derecho de la competencia

El Real Decreto-Ley 9/2017, de 26 de marzo, ha incorporado a nuestro ordenamiento jurídico la Directiva de daños por infracciones al Derecho de la competencia (Directiva 2014/104/UE), de modo que, desde su entrada en vigor, cualquier persona física o jurídica que haya ...

Problemas actuales de Derecho de la propiedad industrial

VIII Jornada de Barcelona de Derecho de la Propiedad Industrial

El libro contiene las cinco conferencias pronunciadas en la V Jornada de Barcelona de Derecho de la Propiedad Industrial. Se caracteriza por ofrecer un compendio de cuestiones de gran interés práctico y jurídico en terreno del derecho industrial. Así, la protección de la obra gastronómica ...

Droit de la concurrence

Droit interne et Droit de l'Union Européenne

Cette huitième édition du manuel de droit de la concurrence paraît, comme la précédente, sous l'empire des dispositions du droit de l'Union européenne issues du traité de Lisbonne (TUE et TFUE) et du droit interne (loi du 4 août 2008 et ordonnance du ...

The right to employee inventions in Patent Law

debunking the myth of incentive theory

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends. This book addresses the issue through reference ...

The myth of capitalism

monopolies and the death of competition

Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high ...

International patent litigation

developing an effective strategy

The book is a concise, practical guide for all those involved in the conduct and management of international patent litigation, from in-house professionals (patent managers, patent attorneys and general counsel) to those in private practice.

Propiedad intelectual e industrial, conexiones y puntos de encuentro

Esta obra incluye los trabajos presentados en la VI edición de las Jornadas sobre temas actuales de la Propiedad Intelectual que se celebran en Cuba, cada dos años, producto de la fructífera colaboración existente entre la Facultad de Derecho de La Universidad de La Habana ...

Copyright

what everyone needs to know

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication ...

Anuario de la Competencia 2017

El Anuario de la Competencia 2017, publicado en colaboración con la Fundación ICO, forma parte de una colección iniciada en el año 1996 y que tiene su continuidad en los años posteriores. El Anuario de la Competencia cumple esencialmente dos objetivos: promover el debate y ...

Patent Wars

how patents impact our daily lives

Patents are ubiquitous in contemporary life. Practically everything we use incorporates one or more patented inventions, and recent years have witnessed epic disputes over such matters as the patenting of human genes, the control of smartphone design and technology, the marketing of patented drugs, and ...

Actas de Derecho Industrial y Derecho de Autor

Volumen 38: (2017-2018)

Patents and artificial intelligence

thinking computers

The best hope for peace and prosperity in our world is the expansion of information, and, as such, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was created to process an infinite amount of information. As men and women continue to perfect AI, monitoring its evolution can be both enlightening ...

Big copyright versus the people

how major content providers are destroying creativity and how to stop them

When the idea of copyright was enshrined in the Constitution it was intended to induce citizens to create. Today, however, copyright has morphed into a system that offers the bulk of its protection to a select number of major corporate content providers (or Big Copyright ...

The shaping of EU competition law

Based on a unique and comprehensive database, The Shaping of EU Competition Law combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to shed light on the evolution of EU competition law. It brings a new perspective to some of the most topical issues in the field including due ...

Intellectual property and new International economic order

oligopoly, regulation, and wealth redistribution in the global knowledge economy

In economic sectors crucial to human welfare – agriculture, education, and medicine – a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward. Such rights include patents on seeds and medicines, copyrights for ...

Patent thickets y Derecho de la competencia

los usos defensivos de los derechos de patente

Los patent thickets o marañas de patentes son conjuntos de patentes interconectadas que protegen una misma tecnología, pertenecientes a uno o varios titulares y que pueden formarse naturalmente o por voluntad expresa de estos, pudiendo conllevar la existencia de efectos restrictivos de la competencia. En ...