Joint Purchasing-framework for Competition Law Analysis & Mechanisms to Address Overly-broad Trademark Usage

This volume of the LIDC contributions covers a competition law assessment of buying alliances as well as the topic of overbroad registrations and trademark clogging. It contains a series of national reports prepared to assist the International Rapporteurs in reporting to the LIDC Congress in Gothenburg in September 2023. The first part focuses on how competition law assesses coordinated conduct by buyers, such as joint purchasing/buying alliances. Different jurisdictions have taken a range of ap