17 Abuse of dominance (1): non-pricing practices
in Competition Law
January 2012 .
Chapter. Subjects: IT and Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law; EU Law; Law. 34 pages. 20980 words.
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18 Abuse of dominance (2): pricing practices
in Competition Law
January 2012 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law; EU Law; Law. 52 pages. 31319 words.
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Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Book. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 368 pages.
This book focuses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries. Specifically, the chapters look at...
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The Battle over Intellectual Property Laws and Access to Medicines in Latin America
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 15649 words.
This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicine; that is, the measures that...
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Brands R Us
in The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property
October 2015; p ublished online October 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 7159 words.
This chapter describes a cultural approach to brands and the logic and contradictions of this approach, drawing upon articles recently published in two issues of the UC Davis Law Review,...
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Brazil and the Case of Patents and Access to Medicines: A Medical Condition?
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 10022 words.
This chapter examines the regulation of patents and access to medicines in Brazil. It demonstrates the incoherence of Brazil's approach, that is, national legislative and political choices...
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CAFTA, Intellectual Property, and the Right to Health in Central America
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 8664 words.
This chapter describes the content of the US–Dominican Republic-Central America Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the multi-sited activism it inspired, and some of the results of that activity in...
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Chile: The Case of IP Opposition from Predominantly Private Interests
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 19362 words.
This chapter discusses the evolution of Chilean patent rights and the protection of non-disseminated information concerning the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products. The chapter...
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Competition Law
January 2012 .
Book. Subjects: Banking Law; Financial Law; Intellectual Property Law; IT and Communications Law; Environment and Energy Law; Competition Law; EU Law; Law. 1081 pages. 649162 words.
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1 Competition policy and economics
in Competition Law
January 2012 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law; EU Law; Law. 48 pages. 28358 words.
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Conclusion: Balancing Wealth and Health in a Transnational Regulatory Framework
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 11252 words.
The preceding case studies have demonstrated how countries sought to utilize flexibilities in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement to keep as much material...
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Cosmopolitanism and the Transnational Trademark
in The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property
October 2015; p ublished online October 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 14071 words.
The world of global trademarks can be characterized in terms of three major shifts: first, a shift from national to global branding strategies; second, a shift from national and regional...
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The Economics of Demand for Counterfeiting
in The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property
October 2015; p ublished online October 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 7347 words.
This chapter provides a theoretical framework to conceptualize the potential sales impacts of counterfeiting. It models a branded firm with multiple product lines under both monopoly and...
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The Ethical Responsibilities of Luxury Companies and Consumers
in The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property
October 2015; p ublished online October 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 10898 words.
This chapter uses the stark contrast between the rich and the poor, as illustrated in the luxury goods industry, as a lens through which to see the existence of an ethical crisis in...
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The Gender of Trademarks and Luxury Branding
in The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property
October 2015; p ublished online October 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 11971 words.
This chapter discusses how the luxury goods industry's branding practices demean and damage women, and how the current framework of intellectual property law only furthers this abuse. It...
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Going Local in the Era of TRIPS Implementation
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 5832 words.
The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement requires that developing countries adopt a regime that increases the price of resources essential to life itself....
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A Golden Straitjacket?
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 12449 words.
This chapter discusses the history of patent regulation in Colombia. It traces the evolution of patent protection from its beginnings in the Andean Pact norms of 1991, to the changes...
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15 Horizontal agreements (3) – cooperation agreements
in Competition Law
January 2012 .
Chapter. Subjects: Environment and Energy Law; IT and Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law; EU Law; Law. 31 pages. 17823 words.
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Human Rights Frames in IP Contests
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 6142 words.
This chapter examines the role of norms and framing — specifically, human rights norms and framing — in the processes of domestic change described in the case studies presented in this...
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The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America
in Balancing Wealth and Health
March 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Intellectual Property Law; Competition Law. 7589 words.
This chapter examines the role of regional capacities — Andean law and the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ) — in the balance that members of the Andean Community strike between health and...
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