ERA's annual conference on European antitrust law for 2011 will offer a forum for practitioners to learn and discuss issues related to the future of competition law in high technology industries in light of the latest policy developments:
- standardisation and its role in promoting technological development and innovation in the light of the new Guidelines;
- selected competition law aspects in the electronic communications sector, such as issues related to systems or applications accessible only to registered users and whether this can be a problem under competition law rules;
- the new frontiers represented by the challenges of cloud computing for the application of competition law rules, in particular: the importance of the prevailing business model in the market, determining inter alia the incentive to innovate; and the risk for potential customers of being locked in;
- the future look of the pharmaceuticals sector in the aftermath of the Astra Zeneca judgment and beyond;
- duty to licence issues related to the limitation of technical development, provided in Article 102(b) TFEU.
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EU and ERA patrons
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Young lawyers and other groups
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Registration
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More details about the fees and discounts
Early registration discount:
10% before 08.02.2011
Discounts available:
25 % - For young lawyers up to 30 years of age (important: the participant must provide a copy or details of his or her passport or identity card on registration); Full-time staff of universities or comparable academic institutions; Staff of charitable organisations or comparable institutions; Employees of the Federal government and of the Cantons of Switzerland
40 % - Staff of European Union institutions and agencies; Staff of ERA’s patrons (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany and the German states, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, City of Trier).