The 4th meeting of the Open PhD Seminar was devoted to the problems surrounding the duty to license intellectual property rights as a remedy to competition restricting practices.
The introductory speech and the following discussion focused on mutual relations between competition and intellectual property rights (IPRs) and specially on issues such as: a refusal to license IPRs on a basic and neighboring market, economic effects of a refusal to license IPRs, conditions for finding a refusal to license IPR as objectively justified and the criteria to be applied by a competition authority while imposing a duty to license.
