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Is It Worth to Protect Competition from Intellectual Property Rights?
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2013-8-60-82
Abstract
Discrete structural alternatives (DSA) of intellectual activity results creation, including specification and protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), are considered through the lens of balancing with competition protection. DSA within the framework of IPR system are studied taking into account differences in incentives depending on market structures where goods are produced with IPR use, on the one hand, and regimes of antitrust, on the other hand. Besides, the open access to results of intellectual activity within the system of prizes and public procurement are presented as DSA. Some recommendations on balancing two ways of economic policy taking into account the state of affairs in Russian antitrust and IPR protection are put forward.
About the Author
A. Shastitko
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Shastitko A. Is It Worth to Protect Competition from Intellectual Property Rights? Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2013;(8):60-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2013-8-60-82
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