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Are Anti-Trust Laws About to Bite Europe on Its IP Assets?

By Simon Smith
December 01, 2003

In the Nov. 11 edition of The Wall Street Journal, Ian Harvey, chief executive of tech firm BTG plc, said “if the European Commission were looking for a way to cripple technological innovation in Europe, it could hardly have come up with a better proposal than its proposed rules on technology transfer.”

Indeed, that proposal will no longer govern merely patents and know-how, but also software-copyright licenses ' a move that might very well have a big impact on a variety of e-commerce business models.

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