The recent revision by the European Commission of its Guidelines on Technology Transfer Agreements, as well as the Block Exemption, which accompanies it, granting a safe harbour from competition law challenge for certain such agreements, makes it timely to review how these revisions reflect some of the recent controversies that have arisen at an EU level as to relationship between intellectual property and competition law.
Keywords: Technology transfer agreements, block exemption, licence agreements, intellectual property licences, patent pools
Originally published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol 19, May 2014, pp 229-233
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