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Antitrust And Platform Monopoly, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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Are large digital platforms that deal directly with consumers “winner take all,” or natural monopoly, firms? That question is surprisingly complex and does not produce the same answer for every platform. The closer one looks at digital platforms the less they seem to be winner-take-all. As a result, competition can be made to work in most of them. Further, antitrust enforcement, with its accommodation of firm variety, is generally superior to any form of statutory regulation that generalizes over large numbers.

Assuming that an antitrust violation is found, what should be the remedy? Breaking up large firms subject to extensive …

Competition And Innovation In Copyright And The Dmca, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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This book of CASES AND MATERIALS ON INNOVATION AND COMPETITION POLICY is intended for educational use. The book is free for all to use subject to an open source license agreement. It differs from IP/antitrust casebooks in that it considers numerous sources of competition policy in addition to antitrust, including those that emanate from the intellectual property laws themselves, and also related issues such as the relationship between market structure and innovation, the competitive consequences of regulatory rules governing technology competition such as net neutrality and interconnection, misuse, the first sale doctrine, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Chapters …

Determining The Scope Of Trademark Rights By Recourse To Value Judgements Related To The Effectiveness Of Competition - The Demise Of The Trademark-Use Requirement And The Functional Analysis Of Trademark Law, Apostolos Chronopoulos

Apostolos Chronopoulos

This paper examines the doctrinal implications of the principle of complementarity between intellectual property rights and competition law in the field of trademarks. The systematic adherence of trademark rights to the wider set of norms regulating the competitive process implies that their teleology should take into consideration value judgements related to the effectiveness of competition. Neither the limiting concept of trademark use nor the legal recognition of some “economic trademark functions” is apt to fulfil this legal task. It is therefore submitted that the normative valuations flowing out of competition law should be implemented through a purposive interpretation of the …