Course code: 351703 | Subject title: INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AND ANTITRUST LAW | ||||
Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: 4 | Period: 1º S | ||
Department: Derecho | |||||
Lecturers: | |||||
PABLO-ROMERO GIL-DELGADO, M. CONCEPCION (Resp) [Mentoring ] | IRIBARREN GASCA, SANTIAGO [Mentoring ] |
Private and Business Law/ Business Law and Management: industrial property and competition.
Free competition is the cornerstone of the market economic system. The process of competition is seen as being of value and meriting protection when used in a reproachable way. Competition law exists to protect competition and implement competition policy in respect of firms operating in the marketplace. There are two different aspects in completion law. Competition law, needed to protect competition from restrictions and Unfair competition Law, which prevents firms from using unfair practices once free competition exists.
The course aims to introduce students with a sufficient knowledge of the competition system in Europe and Spain. Areas of study are: antitrust, mergers, state aid both in the EU and Spain; unfair competition law is Spain. We will also deal with industrial property rights as there are important links between them and competition law.
1.- The general proficiencies to be acquired by the student are:
The specific proficiencies to be acquired by the student are:
a) Cognitive
b) Instrumental abilities:
c) Attitudinal:
Students should be able to:
-Communicate correctly orally and in writing clearly and using the precise terminology
-Reason critically to reach own conclusions
-Know intellectual property rights and the rules governing competition
-Be able to solve legal problems on industrial property and to draft and present opinions on the matter.
Methodology | Number of hours for lectures | Number of hours for personal work |
A-1 Lecture | 45 | |
A-2 Practical activity in the classroom | 15 | 15 |
A-3 Discussion and debate, seminars, tutorial in groups | 10 | |
A-4 Preparation of paper and presentations | 10 | |
A-5 Reading legal material | 10 | |
A-6 Personal study | 49 | |
A-7 Exams, evalulation tests | 2 | |
A-8 Personal tutorials | 4 | |
Resultado de aprendizaje | Sistema de evaluación | Peso (%) |
Carácter recuperable |
R91, R177,R94,R202 | Control of attendance | 5% | No |
R91, R177,R94,R202 | Written exam. The exam shall show the different notions and knowledge acquired by the student | 50% Nota minima = 5/10 | Recuperable mediante prueba escrita |
R91, R177,R94,R202 | Individual work. The work shall show how the student's ability for the analysis, development or application to real or invented cases | 35% | Recuperable mediante prueba escrita |
R91, R177,R94,R202 | Oral presentacion of an individual work done by the student, debate and discussion in the class | 10% | No recuperable |
1 PRELIMINARY IDEAS 2 EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW 2.1. Sources of Law 2.2 The TFEU Provisions on Competition: art. 101 to 109; the enforcement of EU competition law; EU level, national level 2.3 Anticompetitive Agreements, Decisions and Concerted Practices: Art. 101 2.4 Abuses of Dominant Position: Art. 102 2.5 The Enforcement of Art. 101 And 102: Regulation 1/2003 2.6 Claims for Damages 2.7 Public Aids: Art. 107-109 2.8 Merger Control 3 SPANISH COMPETITION LAW 3.1 Anticompetitive Practices 3.2 Merger Control 3.3 The Enforcement of Spanish Competition Law 4 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COMPETITION LAW 4.1. Types of Intellectual Property Rights 4.2. The Relationship between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law 4.3 The exhaustion principle 4.4. Limits on the Exercise of Industrial Property Rights under the EU Treaties 4.5. The Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation 4.6. Assessment of Licensing Agreements on Intellectual Property rights 5 UNFAIR PRACTICES IN COMPETITION 5.1 National Regulation 5.2 Spanish Law 5.3 General Clause 5.4 Different Types of Unfair Practices 5.5 Unfair Practices and Consumers 5.6 Actions against Unfair Practices |
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
There is no text book especially useful for the subject. The contents and agenda can be learn from the bibliography.
It is absolutely necessary the use of European and Spanish legislation: Spanish legislation on competition: Ley de Defensa de la Competencia, Reglamento de Defensa de la Competencia; Spanish legislation on Industrial Property: Ley de marcas, Ley de patentes, Ley de diseño industrial.
UE Treaties and regulations in competition: can be found in http://ec.europa.eu/competition/index_en.html; Spanish unfair competition law:
Ley de Competencia Desleal
Spanish legislation translated to english can be found in: http://www.mjusticia.gob.es/cs/Satellite/es/1288774502225/TextoPublicaciones.html
Webpages:
Oficina española de patentes y marcas: www.oepm.es
Oficina de armonización del mercado interior: www.oami.org
Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia: http://cnmc.es
Comisión Europea (competencia): http://ec.europa.eu/competition
World Intellectual Property Organization http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/
European Commission (competition) http://ec.europa.eu/competition
BIBLIOGRAFÍA
BELLO MARTIN-CRESPO, Mª P. y HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ, F. (coords.), Derecho de la libre competencia comunitario y español, Aranzadi, 2009.
BERCOVITZ RODRÍGUEZ-CANO, A., Apuntes de Derecho mercantil: Derecho mercantil, Derecho de la competencia y propiedad industrial, Aranzadi, 2017.
BERCOVITZ RODRÍGUEZ-CANO, A. (dir.), Comentarios a la Ley de Competencia Desleal, Aranzadi, 2011.
BERCOVITZ RODRÍGUEZ-CANO, A. (dir.), GARCÍA-CRUCES GONZÁLEZ, J. A. (dir. adjunto), Comentarios a la Ley de Marcas, Aranzadi, 2008.
FERNÁNDEZ-NÓVOA, C., Tratado sobre derecho de marcas, Marcial Pons, 2004.
FERNÁNDEZ-NÓVOA, C., OTERO LASTRES, J. M., BOTANA AGRA, J. M., Manual de la Propiedad Industrial, Marcial Pons, 2017.
GARCÍA-CRUCES, J. A. (dir.), Tratado de Derecho de la competencia y de la publicidad, Tomo II, Tirant lo Blanch, 2014.
LÁZARO SÁNCHEZ, E. J. (coord.), Comentario a la Ley General de Publicidad, Civitas, 2009.
MARTÍNEZ SANZ, F. (dir.), Comentario práctico a la Ley de competencia desleal, Tecnos, Madrid, 2009.
MASSAGUER FUENTES, J., El nuevo derecho contra la competencia desleal: la Directiva 2005/29/CE sobre prácticas comerciales desleales, Civitas, 2006.
- Comentario a la Ley de competencia desleal, Civitas, 1999.
MASSAGUER FUENTES, J., GUTIERREZ, A., FOLGUERA CRESPO, J. y SALA ARQUER, J. M., (dirs.), Comentario a la Ley de Defensa de la Competencia, Civitas, 2017.
TATO PLAZA, A., FERNÁNDEZ CARBALLO-CALERO, P., HERRERA PETRUS, C., La reforma de la Ley de Competencia Desleal, La Ley, 2010.