Centre for Innovation Law & Policy Workshop series
presents
Dr. Ignacio DeLeon
Competition Policy and IP Protection:
Lessons from Latin America
Thursday, March 10, 2011
12:30 – 2:00
Classroom B, Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park
The purpose of this talk is to analyze the relevance of the institutional forces shaping competition and intellectual property policies in Latin America. Analysis of the "missing link" could provide important hints about the reasons for slow legal change in the region, no matter the efforts in the last two decades aimed at modernizing both competition and IP policy enforcement. The talk will explore the current state of development in IP proteciton, connections with competition policy as applied in the region, and finally draw some conclusions about the relevance of institutions in the future directions of both policies.
Ignacio De Leon is Managing Director and Partner of ECONLEX CORPORATION, LLC a Miami-based consulting firm specialized in Private Sector Development in emerging markets. Mr. De Leon is an international expert in Latin American antitrust and trade policy, intellectual property and investment promotion. Currently, he advises the USAID, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation on competition policy and regulatory matters, and several governments in Latin America and Central Asia. Mr. De Leon is former Chairman of the Venezuelan Competition Authority, Pro-Competencia. He received his Ph.D. in Law and Economics at University College London (1999). Also, he earns a Master of Economics from Universidad Francisco Marroquin, and a Master of Laws degree from Queen Mary College, University of London. Mr. De Leon is author of “An Institutional Analysis of Antitrust Policy”, (Kluwer Law International, London, 2009) and “Latin American Competition Law and Policy: A Policy in Search of Identity,” (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2001). Currently, he is member of the Editorial Board of World Competition Law and Economics Review and other law journals specialized in law and economics. He also regularly contributes to major specialized publications on law and economics and gives public speeches on trade and competition policy, infrastructure regulation and intellectual property.
A light lunch will be served.
