• Relationships among Positive, Negative Effect and Competitive Efficiency on the Infringement Notice of Intellectual Property Rights: The Moderating Role of Categories of Intellectual Property Rights

Abstract

This paper aims to validate the relationships among positive, negative effect and competitive efficiency on the infringement notice of intellectual property, and the moderating role of categories to competitive efficiency. The study is different from previous related documents of intellectual property and competitive law, which were concerned only with law relationships. A research sample of 177 cases, from 1995 to 2009, is sourced from the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission, and statistical analysis is conducted for validation. The results confirm that a positive structural coefficient of the empirical model is superior to the negative coefficient. Also, the different categories of property rights tend to produce different competitive efficiencies, namely, a trademark, a copyright, and a patent. The findings can provide references to business and authorities of competition law for handling similar cases.

Keywords: Intellectual Property Rights, Infringement Notice, Competitive Efficiency,

Competitive Effect