We are pleased to announce that the next LIDC Congress will take place in Vienna from October 9th to 12th 2025
The registration will start in May 2025 und you can already send an email to lidc2025@oev.or.at for further information
The general motto of this international conference is: “Where Competition, IP and Unfair Competition meet!” Digital and green change as well as other current subjects will be in this legal focus of Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Unfair Commercial Practices.
The International League for Competition Law (LIDC) is a longstanding international association which was created in 1930. The LIDC is composed of almost twenty national chapters and counts more than 800 members. This association is a unique platform for exchanging and developing ideas and knowledge at the intersection of competition, intellectual property and unfair competition law, both at a national and an international setting.
Every year, the LIDC organises an international Congress to study in particular two questions related to this legal area. National Groups or individual members write a national report on each question. The national reports constitute the basis for an in-depth international report discussed during the Congress. All the reports are published by Springer and LIDC in the series “LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition”. Furthermore – as part of this conference – numerous current lectures and panel discussions will be held on current topics in the areas of antitrust law, intellectual property and fair trade law with a wide range of international experts and speakers. In Vienna we expect up to 10 panels with about 50 speakers national and international, coming also from the European Commission, the United States and Asia. We are glad to inform that the two study questions to be prepared by the reporters and discussed during the Vienna Congress are as follows: Question A: Is the concept of the abuse of relative market power beyond market dominance necessary for a functioning competition and what criteria should be used to assess it? Question B: What responsibility or obligations should online platforms have when it comes to eliminating infringements by their users, especially in the areas of IP and unfair competition?
