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INNOVATION AND COMPETITION POLICY, Ch. 9:
THE INNOVATION COMMONS
Herbert Hovenkamp
This book of CASES AND MATERIALS ON INNOVATION AND COMPETITION
POLICY is intended for educational use. The book is free for all to use subject to an
open source license agreement. It differs from IP/antitrust casebooks in that it
considers numerous sources of competition policy in addition to antitrust,
including those that emanate from the intellectual property laws themselves, and
also related issues such as the relationship between market structure and
innovation, the competitive consequences of regulatory rules governing technology
competition such as net neutrality and interconnection, misuse, the first sale
doctrine, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Chapters will be
updated frequently. The author uses this casebook for a three-unit class in
Innovation and Competition Policy taught at the University of Iowa College of
Law and available to first year law students as an elective. The table of contents is
as follows (click on chapter title to retrieve it):
Ch. 1: Competition Policy and the Scope of Intellectual Property Protection
Ch. 2 Complementary Products and Processes: The Law of Tying
Ch. 3 Harm to Competition or Innovation; Remedies
Ch. 4 Competition Policy and the Patent System
Ch. 5 Competition and Innovation in Copyright and the DMCA
Ch. 6 Restraints on Innovation
Ch. 7 Intellectual Property Misuse
Ch. 8 Innovation, Technology, and Anticompetitive Exclusion
Ch. 9 The Innovation Commons
Ch. 10; Post-Sale and Related Distribution Restraints Involving IP Rights
© 2011. Herbert Hovenkamp
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