Competition law, intellectual property rights and dynamic analysis: towards a new institutional “equilibrium?”

The emphasis put on innovation as the common objective of intellectual property law and competition law, and consequently the shift of focus towards the dynamics of economic change, may well be a leitmotiv in recent policy documents and scholarly comment. By focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of the different enforcement institutions of IP and competition law (courts, patent and trademark offices and competition authorities) in performing the necessary balancing of dynamic and allocative efficiency this special issue takes an original perspective on the interaction between these two areas of law.