TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rahnasto Ikka
AU  -  
TI  - Intellectual property rights, external effects, and anti-trust law : : Leveraging IPRs in the communications industry
SN  - 9780199254286
U1  - 346.048000 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - 1. Intellectual Property - Communication & Traffic2. Communication - Law & Legislation3. Antitrust Law4. Patent Laws & Legislation -Copyright
N1  - Table of contents
1. Introduction ; 
2. How the tension between intellectual property protection and antitrust laws is balanced ; 
2.1 Introduction ; 
2.2 Supremacy of antitrust laws ; 
2.3 Supremacy of intellectual property laws ; 
2.4 Theory based on the scope of exclusive rights ; 
2.5 Intellectual property rights as property ; 
2.6 Cost-benefit theories ; 
3. External effects and balancing theories ; 
3.1 Introduction ; 
3.2 Balance between intellectual property rights, competition and external effects in network-based value chain ; 
4. External effects theory applied ; 
4.1 Relevance of addressee/impact combination ; 
4.2 Relevance of chosen action ; 
4.3 Intellectual property and effects of technical design ; 
4.4 Relevance of totality of circumstances ; 
5. Fragmentation problem ; 
5.1 Fragmentation and success of new products ; 
5.2 Fragmentation problem introduced ; 
5.3 The problem of anticommons in the communications industry ; 
6. External effects of intellectual property rights in technology adoption ; 
6.1 Tipping of scale ; 
6.2 Technology adoption re-examined: standardization ; 
7. Conclusions
ER  -