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40 - The Relationship Between the Unfair Competition Regime and IP Law

from C - (Un-)fairness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

Niklas Bruun
Affiliation:
Hanken School of Economics (Finland)
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Affiliation:
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Marianne Levin
Affiliation:
Stockholm University Department of Law
Ansgar Ohly
Affiliation:
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Faculty of Law
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Summary

As known, whereas the EU enacted a European antitrust regime a long time ago, there is no EU regulation of unfair competition (UC)3. Specific statutes only exist in some Member States, such as Germany, Spain and Italy. In others, like the UK, common law principles apply. In France, the homeland of the legal category of unfair competition (and of the term itself: concurrence déloyale), the Courts have applied the general norm on damaging tortious conducts4 since the mid-nineteenth century.

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Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law
Essays in Honour of Annette Kur
, pp. 467 - 477
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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