限制性许可协议的竞争效果分析

An Analysis on Competitive Effects of Restrictions in Licensing Agreements

在许可贸易中,许可人对被许可人可能规定各种限制性条件以继续维持对技术的优势地位或者获取垄断地位。在这些限制性许可条件中,由于存在着滥用知识产权的可能而必须接受反垄断法的审查。问题的关键是,法律形式意义上的审查不足以解释限制性许可的经济效果,相反,以经济分析为基础的合理性审查可以对限制性专利许可行为的合法性提供依据。

In technology transfer agreement,the licensor may put various re- strictions so as to maintain his dominant position or to seek monopoly power.Anti- trust authority may review these restrictive practices to scrutinize whether these practices abuse intellectual property.The key point is that legal analysis does not provide persuasive reasoning in allowing some of the restrictions,while the'rule of reason'and economic analysis may justify the restrictions in technology trans- fer.