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Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review in the European Union and Spain

24 July 2023

We have published the preface and chapters for the European Union and Spain in the Law Review's Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review, Eighth Edition.

The chapters for the European Union* and Spain** provide an update on recent developments as well as an overview of the overall existing lay of the land regarding the relationship between the two bodies of law.

Key topics include the constraints imposed by antitrust on licensing, the circumstances under which a refusal to license intellectual property rights can be unlawful, the imposition of antitrust obligations on owners of standard-essential patents, the application of antitrust law to cross-border e-commerce, the intense disputes regarding the application of antitrust law on patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry, and the growing importance of intellectual property issues in merger cases.

*Preface and European Union chapter authored by Dieter Paemen, Editor of the Law Review's Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review, and Partner (Brussels).

** Chapter for Spain authored by Miquel Montañá, Partner (Barcelona).

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. These chapters were first published in The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review, Eighth Edition. Link to the book in full: https://thelawreviews.co.uk/title/the-intellectual-property-and-antitrust-review.

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