APRIL 2009
IP under threat from competition clampdown
Managing Intellectual Property
From pharmaceuticals to telecoms, software and even copyright licensing, antitrust authorities are clamping down on abuses of IP rights. James Nurton, Eileen McDermott and Peter Ollier examine why IP is under scrutiny and discuss some pending cases and investigations
Microsoft, Rambus, Qualcomm, AstraZeneca – a distinguished list of innovative companies or a rogues' gallery of competition cheats? The line dividing the two descriptions is becoming increasingly hard to define as more and more IP-intensive companies face antitrust investigations. The prospect of dawn raids, line-by-line scrutiny of contracts and emails and ultimately time-consuming litigation against competition authorities is now real for all IP-owning companies.
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