1.
Blockchains and Data Protection in the European Union
Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 18-01
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 06 Dec 2017
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2018
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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3,827
2.
From TRIPS to ACTA: Towards a New 'Gold Standard' in Criminal IP Enforcement?
CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A BLESSING OR A CURSE?, C. Geiger, ed., Edward Elgar, 2010, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 10-06
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 04 May 2010
Last Revised: 07 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,659
3.
Sweet Smells and a Sour Taste - The ECJ's L'Oréal decision
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-12, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 10/01
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 30 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Downloads
1,533
4.
Enough is Enough - The Notion of Binding Ceilings in International Intellectual Property Protection
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper Series No. 09-01
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 13 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
1,467
5.
Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity, Benefit-Sharing and the Patent System: Romantics V. Economics?
EUI Working Paper LAW No. 2005/07
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 06 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
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1,417
6.
Intellectual Property Law in the P.R. China: A Powerful Economic Tool for Innovation and Development
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-02, China-EU Law Journal, Online Version, July 13, 2011
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 07 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
Downloads
1,410
7.
The Law Applicable to Secondary Liability in Intellectual Property Cases
New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 42, p. 201, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 51/2009, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-49, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-64, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-16
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 20 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Chicago-Kent College of Law, New York University - School of Law and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
1,395
8.
The Unitary Patent Package: Twelve Reasons for Concern
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-12
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 08 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 02 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Vienna - Faculty of Law, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
1,284
9.
A Trade Agreement Creating Barriers to International Trade? ACTA Border Measures and Goods in Transit
American University International Law Review, Spring 2011, Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), Second Biennial Global Conference University of Barcelona, July 8-10, 2010, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 10-10
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 16 Nov 2010
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,186
10.
Litigating Intellectual Property Rights in Investor-State Arbitration: From Plain Packaging to Patent Revocation
Fourth Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Working Paper No. 2014-21, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 14-13, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 52/2014
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,026
11.
Trademarks Function, Don't They? CJEU Jurisprudence and Unfair Competition Principles
IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Vol.45. 2014, Issue 4, pp 434-454, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 14-05
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 28 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 06 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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1,018
12.
Protecting Intellectual Property under BITs, FTAs, and TRIPS: Conflicting Regimes or Mutual Coherence?
EVOLUTION IN INVESTMENT TREATY LAW AND ARBITRATION, pp. 485-515, K. Miles, C. Brown, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-02
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 28 Mar 2011
Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,017
13.
Harmonizing Patent Law: The Untamable Union Patent
HARMONISATION OF EUROPEAN IP LAW: FROM EUROPEAN RULES TO BELGIAN LAW AND PRACTICE, M.-Chr. Janssens, G. Van Overwalle, eds., Brussels (Bruylant) 2012, Forthcoming, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-03
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 19 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
969
14.
Economic Efficiency versus Democracy: On the Potential Role of Competition Policy in Regulating Digital Markets in Times of Post-Truth Politics
Forthcoming, Damien Gerard and Ioannis Lianos (eds.), Competition Policy: Between Equity and Efficiency, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 16-16
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 07 Dec 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
917
15.
Designing Competitive Markets for Industrial Data - Between Propertisation and Access
Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 16-13
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 08 Nov 2016
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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886
16.
Too Pretty to Protect ? Trade Mark Law and the Enigma of Aesthetic Functionality
TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITION: CONTRIBUTIONS IN HONOUR OF HANNS ULLRICH, pp. 139 - 159, Josef Drexl, Reto M. Hilty, Laurence Boy, Christine Godt & Bernard Remiche, eds., Larcier, Bruxelles, 2009 (updated version), Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-16
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 14 Nov 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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885
17.
Select from Within the System: The European Patent with Unitary Effect
In: C. Geiger (ed.), Quel droit des brevets pour l'Union européenne?/What Patent System for the European Union?, Paris, Litec, 2013, pp. 207-246, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-11
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 12 Oct 2012
Last Revised: 07 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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851
18.
AstraZeneca and the EU Sector Inquiry: When Do Patent Filings Violate Competition Law?
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-02
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 22 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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837
19.
Virtual Designs
17 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 107 (2014), Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-13, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 242
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 16 May 2013
Last Revised: 19 Feb 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads
820
20.
Comments of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights and Multi-Territorial Licensing of Rights in Musical Works for Online Uses in the Internal Market COM (2012)372
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-04
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 05 Feb 2013
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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778
21.
European Commission - Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy - Comments by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper Series No. 08-05
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 23 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 16 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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753
22.
Injunctions Against Innocent Third Parties: Case of Website Blocking
4 JIPITEC, 2, pp. 116-129, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 15 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)
Downloads
734
23.
The Use of Trade Marks in Keyword Advertising. Developments in ECJ and National Jurisprudence
Lee, Nari/et al. (ed.): Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition and Publicity – Convergences and Development (EIPIN Series). Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2014, pp. 231-286, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-06
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 16 May 2012
Last Revised: 10 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
European Patent Institute (EPI)
Downloads
723
24.
A Comparative Analysis of Policy Space in WTO Law
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper Series No. 08-02
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 02 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 05 Nov 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
722
25.
The Social Function of Intellectual Property Rights, or How Ethics can Influence the Shape and Use of IP Law
Graeme B. Dinwoodie (ed.), 'Intellectual Property Law: Methods and Perspectives', Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2013, pp. 153-176, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-06
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 14 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI
Downloads
690
26.
Collective Copyright Management and Digitization: The European Experience
Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy / Ruth Towse and Christian Handke (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013, pp. 222-234, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-09
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 16 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
689
27.
Of Oceans, Islands, and Inland Water - How Much Room for Exceptions and Limitations Under the Three-Step Test?
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper Series No. 08-04
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 18 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
665
28.
Spotlight on China: Piracy, Enforcement, and the Balance Dilemma in Intellectual Property Law
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-04
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 17 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
Downloads
664
29.
Anti-Unfair Competition Law and Anti-Trust Law: A Continental Conundrum?
EUI Law Working Paper No. 2005/01
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 05 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
Downloads
663
30.
Economic Functions of Collecting Societies - Collective Rights Management in the Light of Transaction Cost - and Information Economics
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 06 Jul 2007
Last Revised: 13 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law and Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law
Downloads
655
31.
Data Ownership and Access to Data - Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 16 August 2016 on the Current European Debate
Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 16-10
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 09 Sep 2016
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Students, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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641
32.
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding
Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 16-09
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 26 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2017
Working Paper Series
Florida Atlantic University, University of Bremen - Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads
624
33.
Regulation and Control of Communication: The French Online Copyright Infringement Law (HADOPI)
Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law (JICL), Vol. 19, 2011, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-07
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 21 May 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Jönköping International Business School
Downloads
609
34.
The Origins of American Design Protection
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, 2013, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 199, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-18
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 10 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 22 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads
606
35.
Challenges for the Enforcement of Copyright in the Online World: Time for a New Approach
Published in: P. Torremans (ed.), "Research Handbook on the Cross-Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property", Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2014, p. 704, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 14-01
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 07 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI
Downloads
593
36.
What to Protect, and How? Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property, or Protection Sui Generis
In: Intellectual property, unfair competition and publicity: convergences and development / ed. by Nari Lee et al.- Cheltenham: Elgar, 2014, pp. 11-32, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-12
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 20 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 01 Jan 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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592
37.
European Commission - White Paper: Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules
IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Vol. 39, No. 7, 2008, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-07
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 29 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Faculty of Law
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582
38.
Real Knowledge is to Know the Extent of One's Own Ignorance: On the Consumer Harm Approach in Innovation-Related Competition Cases
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-15, Antitrust Law Journal , Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 06 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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573
39.
The Google Book Search Settlement: A Law and Economics Analysis
Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 7-50, 2011, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-06
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 01 May 2011
Last Revised: 29 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
European Commission, Joint Research Center and Ruhr University Bochum
Downloads
563
40.
IP Law Reform and the Treaty of Lisbon
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-03
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 11 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Vienna - Faculty of Law and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
562
41.
Competition Law at the Crossroads in the Digital Economy: Is it All About Google?
EuCML, 2015, Vol. 4, issue 5, pp. 170-178, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 15-13
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 15 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
561
42.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property: What Consequences for the European Union?
In: J. Rosén (ed.), Intellectual Property Rights at the Crossroads of Trade, Cheltenham, Elgar, 2012, pp. 167-181, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-04
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 19 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 24 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI
Downloads
528
43.
TRIPS, Patent Rights and Right to Health: 'Price' or 'Prize' for Better Access to Medicine?
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 15 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
520
44.
The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
Auteurs & Media 2012, Issue 6, pp. 539-546
, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-08
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 12 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
516
45.
All Back to Square One? - An Assessment of the Latest Proposals for a Patent and Court for the Internal Market and Possible Alternatives
Published as: Back to square one?, in: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), Vol. 43, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 286-308, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 12-01
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 13 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Vienna - Faculty of Law
Downloads
514
46.
The European Draft Common Frame of Reference - A Source of Comparative Law: A New Option for Choosing the Applicable Law - Or a Template for a European Civil Code?
International Seminar on Comparative Law, Conference Proceedings, Kuala Lumpur, November 2008
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 22 Dec 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
505
47.
The Recorded Music Industry and the Emergence of Online Music Distribution: Innovation in the Absence of Copyright (Reform)
George Washington Law Review, Vol. 79, Issue 6, 2011, pp. 1783 - 1813, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-09
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 May 2011
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
499
48.
Rationales for the Legal Protection of Intangible Goods and Cultural Heritage
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-10
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 17 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
491
49.
Too Common, Too Splendid, or ‘Just Right’? Trade Mark Protection for Product Shapes in the Light of CJEU Case Law
Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 14-17
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 12 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
489
50.
Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in Unilateral Conduct Cases - The Interaction Between the Economic Review of the Prohibition of Abuses of Dominant Positions and Private Enforcement
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-11
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 04 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Downloads
483
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