Intellectual Property and Competition Policy
Intellectual Property and Competition Policy

Patent Pooling and Industrial Concentration in Germany (1890–1930)

Author(s): Louis Pahlow
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: copyright and patent right;Germany
Summary/Abstract: This chapter will use the example of patent law to examine the question of how intellectual property rights affect the competition and interdependence between market participants, and their regulation. The first section will analyze the significance of patent pools as the basis for a bundling of technical property rights as well as the expansion of the patents’ penetrative power in the face of outsiders. The subsequent section will then address the issue of whether, and if so to what extent, patent, and cartel laws after 1918 were able to restrict the increasing market power of industrial concerns with regards to the access of outsiders to technical innovations.

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