TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BLOCK EXEMPTION REGULATION (240/96) AND GUIDELINES IN TERMS OF HARD CORE AND EXCLUDED RESTRICTIONS
Abstract
Elements of intellectual property rights are used by several legal systems within their competition policies. In particular, they are regulated by competition law. License agreements, in which competition law and intellectual property law are applied together, have served to distribute technology by allowing intellectual property rights to be used by others. The framework for intellectual property rights licensing was arranged by the “Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (240/96)” (TTBER) and also Guidelines regarding technology transfer agreements.In this regard, an important issue should be analyzed; “how agreements between competitors and those between non-competitors are dealt with under the TTBER and Guidelines in terms of hard core and excluded restrictions?” In this study, I would like to focus on the aforementioned question under TTBER and concerned Guidelines
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