RT journal article
T1 Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court
A1 Cappabianca, Pietro
K1 patents
K1 antitrust
K1 patent pool
K1 R&D
K1 competition
K1 patent assertion entities
AB Protecting research has always been a relevant issue in order to fosterinnovation, especially in the pharmaceutical field. Intellectual property rightsprotection plays a main role in the current economy since it allows companies tomonetize efforts and investments in research and development through the patentsystem. However, in the past years antitrust authorities found themselves in frontof a tangled question: the strategic use of patents in order to unlawfully prolongthe protection time and, by so doing, to exclude competitors from the market. Thestrategic use of patent portfolios and the rapid growth of Patent Assertion Entitiesrepresent a significant antitrust issue which needs to be investigated, especially following the Agreement on unitary patent and Unified Patent Court and the relateddeep changes in the European patent system in order to verify if such Agreementcan be a useful tool against strategic and anti-competitive conducts.
PB Editorial Uca
SN 2345-3456
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37373
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37373
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-may-2026