INNOVATION AND COMPETITION POLICY: CASES AND MATERIALS
AN OPEN SOURCE CASEBOOK
Herbert Hovenkamp
This book of Cases and Materials on Innovation and Competition Policy is intended for educational use. The book is free for all to use subject to an open source license agreement. It differs from IP/antitrust casebooks in that it considers numerous sources of competition policy in addition to antitrust, including those that emanate from the intellectual property laws themselves, and also related issues such as the relationship between market structure and innovation, the competitive consequences of regulatory rules governing technology competition such as net neutrality and interconnection, misuse, the first sale doctrine, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Chapters will be updated frequently. The author uses this casebook for a three-unit class in Innovation and Competition Policy taught at the University of Iowa College of Law and available to first year law students as an elective. The table of contents is as follows (click on chapter title to retrieve it):
Ch. 1: Competition Policy and the Scope of Intellectual Property Protection
Ch. 2: Complementary Products and Processes: The Law of Tying
Ch. 3: Harm to Competition or Innovation; Remedies
Ch. 4: Competition Policy and the Patent System
Ch. 5: Competition and Innovation in Copyright and the DMCA
Ch. 6: Restraints on Innovation
Ch. 7: Intellectual Property Misuse
Ch. 8: Innovation, Technology, and Anticompetitive Exclusion
Ch. 10: Post-Sale and Related Distribution Restraints Involving IP Rights
Statutory Supplement and Other Materials
© 2011. Herbert Hovenkamp
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