2023 - #Patents #Pharma #EU #CompetitionLaw
Book published by Almedina - available here.
Title - Patentes Farmacêuticas na União Europeia: Estratégias (Anti)Concorrenciais e Aplicação do Direito da Concorrência
[Pharmaceutical Patents in the European Union: (Anti-)competitive Strategies and Enforcement of Competition Law]
Abstract - In this book I dive into the developing topic of the enforcement of Competition Law regarding (anti)competitive practices undertaken by pharmaceutical companies based on pharmaceutical patents. I set out to identify the main types of practices in this area while proposing standardised guidelines on how to classify such practices as anticompetitive or not, without compromising the competitive innovation inherent to patents.
Article included in Book published by Almedina - available here.
Book Title - Ensaios de Direito e Política da Concorrência - Navegar o Mercado no Século XXI
[Essays on Antitrust Law and Policy - Navigating the Market in the 21st Century]
Article Title - Standard Essential Patents, Licenças FRAND e Direito da Concorrência na Indústria de Telecomunicações e IoT - Caso Huawei c. ZTE no Tribunal de Justiça
[Standard Essential Patents, FRAND Licenses and Antitrust Law in the Telecommunications and IoT Industry - Huawei v. ZTE Case in the Court of Justice]
Abstract - Telecom & IoT technology, enabling global mobile connectivity, must be interoperable in a single ecosystem and in this context the creation of standards by SSOs such as ETSI is crucial in advocating standardized infrastructures that most operators in the sector adhere to. Access to technology integrated into standards increasingly calls for the enforcement of Competition Law and thus we revisit the case Huawei v. ZTE from 2015 that remains paradigmatic in 2025.