We are pleased to announce that the next LIDC Congress will take place in Vienna from October 9th to 12th 2025
The list of topics for the panels that will be discussed during this conference is following soon. The general motto is: “Where Competition, IP and Unfair Competition meet!” Digital and green change as well as other current subjects will be in this legal focus of Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Unfair Commercial Practices.
The International League for Competition Law (LIDC) is a longstanding international association which was created in 1930. The LIDC is composed of 18 national chapters and counts more than 800 members. The LIDC is a unique platform for exchanging and developing ideas and knowledge at the intersection of competition, intellectual property and unfair competition law, both at a national and an international setting.
Every year, the LIDC organises an international Congress to study in particular two questions related to this legal area. National Groups or individual members write a national report on each question. The national reports constitute the basis for an in-depth international report discussed during the Congress. The resolutions, adopted during the General Assembly, propose solutions to the questions debated and suggest recommendations that are sent to national and international authorities. All the reports are published by Springer and LIDC in the series “LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition”. Furthermore – as part of the congress – numerous current lectures and panel discussions will be held on current topics in the areas of antitrust law, intellectual property and fair trade law with a wide range of international experts and speakers. We are glad to inform that the two study questions to be prepared by the reporters and discussed during the Vienna Congress are as follows: Question A: Is the concept of the abuse of relative market power beyond market dominance necessary for a functioning competition and what criteria should be used to assess it? Question B: What responsibility or obligations should online platforms have when it comes to eliminating infringements by their users, especially in the areas of IP and unfair competition?
