Contents:
Volume 1. Competition policy and the system of intellectual property rights;
Introduction;
The United States intellectual property system: key aspects for the antitrust interface;
Misuse;
Intellectual property and market power;
Jurisdictional and procedural issues governing antitrust/intellectual property claims;
Remedies for anticompetitive abuses of intellectual property rights;
Anticompetitive settlement of intellectual property disputes;
Monopolistic practices involving intellectual property rights;
Monopolization;
Improper enforcement of intellectual property claims;
Innovation and product changes;
Unilateral refusals to license;
Patent and other intellectual property acquisitions; nonuse;
Manipulations of the regulatory process;
Vertical integration and related licensing practices by intellectual property holders;
Vertical practices involving intellectual property rights: preliminary issues;
Tying, exclusive dealing, and related licensing practices;
Package licensing, blanket licenses, and block-booking;
Anticompetitive royalty provisions;
Resale price maintenance, the first sale doctrine, and vertically imposed nonprice restraints;
Grant back provisions