Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights: Cases and by Christopher R. Leslie

In Antitrust legislation and highbrow estate Rights: instances and Materials, Christopher R. Leslie describes how patents, copyrights, and logos confer exclusionary rights on their proprietors, and the way companies occasionally workout this exclusionary strength in ways in which exceed the valid bounds in their highbrow estate rights. Leslie explains that whereas noticeable highbrow estate legislation defines the scope of the exclusionary rights, antitrust legislations frequently presents crucial effects whilst proprietors of highbrow estate misuse their rights in a manner that harms shoppers or illegitimately excludes rivals. Antitrust legislations defines the bounds of what highbrow homeowners can do with their IP rights. during this publication, Leslie explores what behavior organisations can and can't interact in whereas buying and exploiting their highbrow estate rights, and surveys these points of antitrust legislation which are valuable for either antitrust practitioners and highbrow estate lawyers to appreciate. This publication is perfect for a complicated antitrust direction in a JD application. as well as development on simple antitrust options, it fills in a niche that's usually lacking in uncomplicated antitrust classes but severe for an highbrow estate attorney: the intersection of highbrow estate and antitrust legislation. the connection among highbrow estate and antitrust is especially beneficial as increasingly more legislations faculties supply specializations and LLMs in highbrow estate. This e-book additionally presents significant fabric for either undergraduate and graduate company faculties courses since it explains how antitrust legislations limits the marshalling of highbrow estate rights.