Anti-Trust & Competition Aspects of Intellectual Property

SEMINAR OVERVIEW

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Why You Should Attend This Seminar

This essential half-day course provides a comprehensive update of all aspects of UK and EU competition law as they apply to intellectual property.

Intellectual property lawyers and commercial lawyers needing to know the crucial competition law issues which affect their patent, know-how and other licensing agreements, as well as litigators concerned to ensure the enforceability under competition law of their settlement agreements, will find this course invaluable.

Seminar Programme

The course will cover:

UK and EU competition law - Competition Act 1998 and Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty of Rome
Latest developments under the technology transfer regulation and IP guidelines of the Commission
Free movement of goods rules - Parallel exports and imports within the EU, repackaging, restrictions on exports and imports, practical guidance for and against parallel importers, latest cases
Abuse of a dominant position and IP - When refusal to license or unfair licensing terms and prices could be illegal under EU and UK competition law
Latest cases
Recent competition developments such as UK and EU proposals to change the law on recovering damages for breach of the competition rules
The tension between ownership of a monopoly IP right and the competition rules

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SPEAKER(S) BIOGRAPHY

Speaker: Susan Singleton, Singletons. Susan is an experienced competition and commercial lawyer with extensive experience of advising on competition law and intellectual property. Author of 30 books she lectures widely in the UK and abroad and advises major UK companies on competition law and export and import issues. Formerly a competition lawyer with Slaughter and May she now runs her own specialist IP/competition law firm in London. She is author of Commercial Agency Agreements (Tottel, 2nd ed), Business the Internet and the Law and the Data Protection Handbook.

Susan Singleton

DATES & COSTS

New dates for this event are currently being finalised. Please contact us to register your interest in this seminar, and details will be dispatched to you as soon as they become available.

COURSE ACCREDITATION

This seminar has been approved for 3 CPD hours by The Solicitors Regulation Authority (REF: CVX/MBLS)
This seminar has been approved for 3 CPD hours by The Institute of Legal Executives (REF: CVXMBL)
This seminar has been approved for 3 CPD hours by The Institute of Paralegals

IN-HOUSE TRAINING

All our courses are available on an in-house basis. To discuss your requirements, please call us on 0161 793 0984, email inhouse@mblseminars.co.uk or fax us on 0161 728 8139.

BOOKING INFORMATION

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MBL Seminars Limited, Denning House, 1 Hazelhurst Road, Worsley, Manchester, England, M28 2SX

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