Intellectual property (IP) law subjects intellectual assets to the owner’s exclusive control. Competition law on the other hand, seeks to avoid market barriers and benefit consumers by ensuring that a multiplicity of suppliers of goods, services and technologies may effectively compete against each other. The relationship between these two areas of law poses uniquely difficult challenges to policymakers, particularly in developing countries, the majority of which have little or no tradition in the application of competition law and policies…refer to the case study
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