Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

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Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
MPI for Innovation and Competition
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Munich
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Law , economics
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Josef Drexl (Managing Director)
Dietmar Harhoff
Reto M. Hilty
Homepage: www.ip.mpg.de/

The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is a legal and economic research institution based in Munich . It emerged from the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law , which was expanded and renamed in 2013 by a new department. The institute is part of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG). The institute has the world's leading library on its research areas and, in particular, on their international links.

history

In 1952, a legal "Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law " was founded at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Under the leadership of its first director and president of the German Patent Office, Eduard Reimer (1896–1957), the institute achieved international importance and recognition. His successor Eugen Ulmer (1903–1988) continued to shape the scientific work; In particular, he promoted the expansion of national and international copyright and competition law.

In 1966, as founding director, he succeeded in setting up the "Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law". In 1971, Friedrich-Karl Beier (1926–1997) and Gerhard Schricker (on the directorate until 2003) were accepted into the directorate of the Max Planck Institute, along with Eugen Ulmer . In the decades that followed, the Max Planck Institute was able to exert a wide range of influence on the national and international development of the legal areas it oversees. Examples are the work based on comparative law analyzes on the European harmonization of the law against unfair competition, trademark law , design law and copyright law ; However, comparative law studies on the patentability of biotechnological inventions or research into the border areas between property rights were also fundamental .

In 2002 the institute was significantly renewed and expanded in terms of personnel, subject-matter and space. In addition to Joseph Straus , who was appointed director in 2001 and took over management from Gerhard Schricker on January 1, 2002 , Josef Drexl , Reto M. Hilty and Wolfgang Schön were also appointed to the institute's board of directors. On July 1, 2002, the new "Accounting and Taxes" unit was added to the newly formed "Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law" unit, which was significantly expanded with regard to antitrust law . It is designed to capture the law of capital market information and the taxation of companies as components of the international economic and competitive order.

2002 also marked the actual founding year of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), which administratively managed as a separate department of the institute, but by the Max Planck Society in cooperation with the University of Augsburg , the Technical University of Munich and George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC. The MIPLC serves both research and teaching and has been offering an internationally networked LL.M. course with a focus on IP law in English since autumn 2003, initially under the direction of Joseph Straus and since 2009 under the direction of Josef Drexl on. The participating students come from five continents.

In 2009 the institute was expanded to include a finance department. The research field finance studies problems, opportunities and challenges of government action. The department investigates how the economic burden of a tax is distributed among economic agents in view of the institutional framework, which adjustments taxes cause in markets and which welfare losses they trigger.

With effect from January 1, 2011, the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law with Josef Drexl and Reto M. Hilty as directors have become independent from the existing Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law as well as the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance under the direction of Kai A. Konrad and Wolfgang Schön . At the same time, these institutes have merged with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law to form the Munich Max Planck Campus for Legal and Economic Research. In 2013, the economist Dietmar Harhoff was appointed to the institute. Due to the new economic research area, the institute was renamed "Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition".

literature

  • Thomas Hoeren : “The management committee recommends rejection” - considerations on the history of the Munich MPI . In: Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen, Thomas Gergen (ed.): Creativity and character: law, history and culture in creative processes: Festschrift for Martin Vogel on his seventieth birthday (=  studies on industrial property rights and copyright ). Kovač, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8300-9409-8 , p. 111-128 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. People from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. In: www.ip.mpg.de. Accessed January 21, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 52.3 ″  E