On September 26 and 27, Harvard Law School hosted the “Innovation, Justice and Globalization” conference.
The panel “Do antitrust and competition law trust intellectual property law too much?”
chaired by Harvard Law School Professor Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard University, featured panelists:
Graham Dutfield
The evolving role of branding in pharmaceutical management: how should competition law respond?
Sean Flynn
Enforcing Fair Following Rights Through Competition Law
Duncan Matthews
A Pro-Competitive Strategy for Developing Countries: Do we still need this and where do we go from here?
Pam Samuelson
The Infusion of Competition Policy in Copyright Law
Peter Yu
Revisiting the Historical Lines of Demarcation: Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and International Trade When TRIPS Hits 25
The conference focused on six themes: the economics of innovation and development; whether antitrust and competition law trust intellectual property law too much; the “puzzles” of overlapping and hybrid intellectual property rights; the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the role of intellectual property rights in developing countries; challenges facing the digital commons; non-voluntary licensing of pharmaceutical patents; and property rights versus liability rules — theories and practical implications. Panelists included experts from government and international/inter-governmental organizations, as well as faculty from the Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.