Confronting issues interfacing intellectual property and competition in markets driven by high-technology industries has become a challenging task for regulators as also the courts across jurisdictions. The overarching aim of confirming consumer welfare along with encouraging innovation can be daunting in the absence of clear legal framework characterized by processual fairness.

This special issue brings together articles from scholars and practitioners of intellectual property and competition law that discuss how regulatory agencies and courts deal with issues at the interface of interface of intellectual property, competition and standardization of high technology products in India, United States of America, United Kingdom, China, South Korea and the European Union.