CIPIL Seminar: 'Contextualising the IP versus competition law clash – an evolutionary approach to the Huawei case' - Rupprecht Podszun

​Rupprecht Podszun, University of Düsseldorf, will speak on the topic of "Contextualising the IP versus competition law clash – an evolutionary approach to the Huawei case"

In the Huawei/ZTE case, the CJEU had to rule on a competition law defence to a patent violation claim. The Court thus took a stand in the raging debate how to balance IP protection with market access. The talk will add an evolutionary approach to reading this judgment. This may provide an analytical framework for discussing innovative steps in legal rulings under the specific circumstances of the European institutional design.

Rupprecht Podszun is a full professor for civil law and competition law at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany. Previously, he held the chair for civil law, IP law and economic law at the University of Bayreuth. He was a Senior Research Fellow with the Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition from 2007-2012 and a case officer at the German national competition authority from 2005 to 2007. He is an editor of the leading German competition law journal Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb and of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law. At present, Rupprecht is a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge.