Tying in Intellectual Property Licenses: the Approach of Competition Law

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1 Assistant Professor, Intellectual Property Law Department, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

2 M.A Graduate, Intellectual Property Law, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

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Conditioning the licensing of an intellectual product on acquiring another i.e. tying, as an essential issue in competition law, is divided into legal and illegal. The elements of illegal tying in the European Union are: anti-competitive effect, distinct products, force and, depending on the case, agreement between undertakings or abuse of dominant position. Legislators, in the United States and Iran, have provided for similar conditions. The three legal systems have prescribed civil remedies and criminal sanctions such as declaring the agreements as automatically void, their voidability or fines which, depending on circumstances, will be enforced. Provisions of the Iranian law, both on conditions of tying and its remedies and sanctions must be revised.
 
 

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Journal of Legal Studies
Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
September 2017
Pages 1-26

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