Comments on the draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance

Quentin B. Schäfer

Comments on the draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance

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Abstract

This consultation response concerns the treatment of intellectual property in the European Commission's draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance. I argue that the Draft Guidelines (i) correctly do not depart from the 'complementarity' and 'concurrency' principles on the IP-Competition Interface; (ii) fail to provide sufficient legal certainty in relation to the law governing refusals to license IPRs after Google Shopping; and (iii) fail to explicitly adopt the SEP licensing framework under Article 102 set out in Huawei v ZTE.

Original language	English
Type	Consultation Response
Media of output	Text
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2024

Keywords

competition law
intellectual property
abuse of dominance
Article 102 TFEU

UN SDGs

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Comments on the draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance

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