Workshops
Every year LIDC organises an international congress and takes resolutions on issues related to unfair competition and competition law. Here you can find the previous resolutions taken, aswell as the most recent one's
National Groups
National groups can become affiliated members of the LIDC, whether or not they have legal status, provided their aims and objects are in line with those of the Association.
List of national groups and their contact details Other Resolutions
The LIDC has discussed the following questions in Catania September 2007 A : To what extent and by what means should Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) be subject to compulsory licensing by reason of competition law ? International Rapporteur: Tony Woodgate (United Kingdom) International report B : Ambush Marketing: too smart to be good ? Should certain ambush marketing practices be declared illegal and if yes, which ones and under what conditions ? International Rapporteur: Pierre KOBEL (Switzerland) International Report / Final conclusion For resolutions archives please click here. Contact
ECTA
European Communities Trademark Association is an association made up of individuals coming from industry and from private practice, who have common interests concerning the protection of trade marks and designs in the European Union. http://www.ecta.org/ INTA International Trademark Association is a not-for-profit membership association of more than 4500 trademark owners and professionals, from more than 180 countries, dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective national and international commerce. http://www.inta.org/ LES Licensing Executive Society International is an association of 30 national and regional organizations, each composed of individual members who are engaged in the profession of licensing and other aspects of transferring or profiting from intellectual property. http://les.org/ ALAI
Association Litteraire et Artistique Internationale est un groupement indépendant, dépositaire des principes assurant la protection des auteurs et, par-là même, le rayonnement de la création, l'ALAI jouit d'une autorité officiellement reconnue. http://www.alai.org/index-a.php AIPPI
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property is an international organization dedicated to the development and improvement of intellectual property. It operates by concluding studies of existing national laws and proposes measures to achieve harmonisation of these laws on an international bases. http://www.aippi.org/ American Antitrust Institute
The AAI is an independent Washington-based non-profit education, research and advocacy organization. This website is intended to provide useful information about antitrust to journalists and academic researchers, to lawyers, economists, business people, government officials, and others having professional interests in antitrust, and to the general public. http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/ Popular downloads
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ERIC
The official mean of publication of The Ligue is the RIC. You will find in the RIC articles on most recent developments on competition law within the European Union but also in other States where The Ligue is represented through national organisations. Since 2003 the RIC is only published in electronic form, and is now called ERIC. Two editions a year are planned, the first at the end of February, the second at the end of August. Jacques Lassier Prize
The laureats of the J. Lassier Prize 2006 are ex aequo Laetitia Driguez, with here work "Droit social et droit de la concurrence", and David Bosco with his work "Le contrat exclusif". The latest laureats of this Prize were:1990 - Dominique Graz (Suisse) Propriété intellectuelle et libre circulation des marchandises 1994 - Daniel Fasquelle (France) Droit américain et droit communautaires de ententes 1998 - Friedrich Ruffler (Autriche) Der Einfluss des Europarchets auf das Österreichische UWG 2002 - Raphaël Arn (Suisse) La publicité choquante - Vers une nouvelle dimension du droit de la concurrence déloyale |