IP and Antitrust in the US and EU

Mariateresa Maggiolino, Department of Law, published Intellectual Property and Antitrust. A Comprative Economic Analysis of US and EU Law (Edward Elgar, 2011, pp 288, £ 65).

"This book", Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Iowa, writes in the Foreword, "brings to bear Professor Maggiolino's considerable skills as a comparative competition law scholar on what is perhaps the single most important competition policy issue facing us today – namely, how to use IP policy and competition policy in tandem to further both economic competition and competition in innovation".

The discussion comes in the wake of the great interest engendered by the interface between antitrust law and intellectual property rights, considering that the ongoing integration of markets pushes countries towards a harmonization of their legal systems. Mariateresa Maggiolino takes this inquiry forward by confronting the two jurisdictions' legal standards with current economic thinking, and discusses the policy suggestions that result.