Interface between Antitrust and IPRs

University of Toronto - Law Faculty

The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy presents Innovation Law and Policy Workshop with Ignacio De Leon, Ph.D.

March 10, 2011

This talk explores the relevance of the institutional forces shaping competition and intellectual property policies in Latin America. Analysis of the “missing link” could provide important hints about the reasons for slow legal change in the region, no matter the efforts in the last two decades aimed at modernizing both competition and IP policy enforcement. The talk will explore the current state of development in IP protection, connections with competition policy as applied in the region, and finally draw some conclusions about the relevance of institutions in the future direction of both policies.