How is the interaction between intellectual property and competition laws determined? Which laws and principles regulate the economic and informational power based on intellectual property rights?

In the information society, intellectual property rights constitute not only the core strategic assets of firms, but also the instruments of societally relevant power. Intellectual property, competition and fundamental rights laws increasingly participate in constituting the networked information society and its future.

In this timely book, the European system of intellectual property protection is approached from less traditional premises based on European constitutionalism and democratic discourse. European intellectual property and competition laws, their general principles, doctrines of interpretation and interaction constitute the central areas of concretization.