Condutas anticoncorrenciais relacionadas à propriedade industrial

Abstract

The present work is an attempt to evaluate the decisions rendered by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, the administrative body responsible for defending free competition in Brazil related to industrial property and anticompetitive conducts. We select a series of judgments delivered between 1994 and 2012, period in which the liberalization of internal market allowed the exercise of free enterprise and competition. In order to provide a better understanding of the issue, we performed a brief study approaching the industrial property as a competitive advantage face to traditional views that see it as a Right in Rem or Monopoly legally assured.