Antitrust Regulation of Intellectual Property on Digital Markets

Student: Prokaeva Olga

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

The presence of competition in the market is considered to be the engine of innovative activity, therefore, discussions about the need to remove actions to exercise the exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity and equivalent means of individualization from the scope of the prohibition of abuse of dominance have not stopped for a long time. In this regard, the main goal of this study is to bring some certainty to this discussion, focusing on the central question: is it possible to effectively ensure competition in the intellectual property market in the digital economy by extending competition laws to this area, whether to achieve this goal by other legal means, or whether the intervention of the legislator in these relations is not required, and the market is able to settle itself independently.

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