The purpose of this book is to examine the experience of a number of countries in grappling with the problems of reconciling the two fields of competition policy and intellectual property rights. The first two parts of the book indicate the variation in legislative models as well as the wide variety of judicial and administrative doctrines that have been used. The jurisdictions selected for study are the three major trading blocks with the longest experience of case law, the EU, the USA and Japan, and three less populous countries with open economies, Australia, Ireland and Singapore. By setting out the legislative and judicial and administrative alternatives available in those.
