• A timely examination of the completely revised EC competition law regime for intellectual property licensing
• Step-by-step guidance on the new "self-assessment" approach to exemption
• Considers to what extent old case law is valid today, allowing practitioners to assess whether their existing agreements comply with the new law
• Makes the recent changes in the treatment of intellectual property readily understandable to specialists and non-specialists alike
• Draws important lessons for IP licensing from case law in other sectors
• Written by expert authors combining analytical skills with practical understanding of the subject

Readership: Legal practitioners, both non-specialists and specialists in intellectual property and competition law; in-house counsel; academics; post-graduate students; reference libraries.

Steven D. Anderman, Professor of Law, Essex University, and John Kallaugher, Partner, Latham & Watkins solicitors

Part IIntroduction
1: Introduction
2: The Development of the Regulatory Framework for IP Licensing in the EC
Part IIThe New Framework for Analysis of IP Issues
3: The 'Modernisation' of EU Competition Law Enforcement - the New Analytical Paradigm for Applying Article 81 Analytical Paradigm for Applying Article 81
4: Applying the Economics-based Approach to Article 81: Assessing Competitive Harm and Economic Benefit
5: IP Licensing under the New Paradigm
6: Market Definition
Part IIIApplying the Methodology to Agreements Under the New Rules
7: 'Vertical' Agreements for Technology Transfer between 'Non-competitors'
8: Licensing between Competitors
9: Cooperative Development and Exploitation of Technology - Standard Setting; Technology Pools; and Joint Research and Development
10: Technology Licensing and Article 82
Appendices
A: The Main Features of the New Technology Transfer Regulation
B: Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation
C: Commission Notice Guidelines on the application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to technology transfer agreements (2004/C 101/02)