欧洲竞争法下专利许可和和解协议中的无异议和延迟付款协议

Marco Stief
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…在一个似乎越来越多的诉讼和复杂的世界里,人们很难否认友好解决的好处。至少,这样的和解减轻了侵权法院和有效性法院的负担。然而,任何与专利的有效性和/或可执行性有关的协议都是知识产权与竞争法之间关系的核心。在欧盟,这些协议必须根据《欧洲联盟运作条约》(TFEU)第101条进行仔细审查,以评估它们是否与内部市场兼容,并且不会因过度延长专利授予的临时有限垄断而妨碍研发(R&D),以换取发明的公开。因此,任何限制或禁止当事人对专利提出异议或规定延长专利授予的20年垄断权的协议,从本质上讲都可能与反垄断发生冲突。由于专利法和反垄断法是共存的,两者都是为合法利益服务的,因此它们之间的紧张关系是有意为之,找到适当的平衡是为了推动技术发展和促进技术进步。
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No-challenge and pay-for-delay agreements in patent licence and settlement agreements under European competition law
... In a world that seems to grow increasingly litigious and complex, one can hardly deny the benefits of amicable settlements. At the very least, such settlements lessen the burden on infringement and validity courts. However, any kind of agreement relating to the validity and/or enforceability of a patent goes to the heart of the relationship between IP and competition law. In the European Union those agreements have to be reviewed carefully under Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), to evaluate whether they are compatible with the internal market and do not in any way encumber research and development (R&D), by overextending the temporarily limited monopoly granted by a patent in exchange for the disclosure of an invention. Accordingly, any agreement limiting or prohibiting a party from challenging a patent or providing for a de facto extension of the 20-year monopoly right granted by a patent entails by nature a potential conflict with antitrust. Since patent and antitrust law coexist and both serve legitimate interests, the tension between them is intentional and finding the right balance serves the purpose of driving technological development and fostering technological progress.
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