The first intake of the IMPRS-CI programme deals with enforcement of intellectual property and competition law in the pharmaceutical, entertainment, engineering and information technology industries.

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Liability Rules in Patent Law (Daniel Krauspenhaar)

The License-of-Right System in Germany: Evidence and Implications (Ilja Rudyk)

Copyright and Cultural Consonance - Insights from an Empirical Legal Study on Piracy in the Indian Film Industry  (Arul George Scaria)

Essays on the Peculiarities of Entertainment Industries (Jan-Christian Tonon)

Enforcement of Patents on the Internet (Agnieszka Kupzok)

The Impact of Market Regulation on Investment and Innovation (Dominik Ruderer)

Facilitating Access to Gene Patents – Investigations about Patent Pools As a Strategic Solution (Sisi Liang)

Three Essays in Industrial Organization: Pay-for-delay Settlements, Exclusive Contracts, and Price Discrimination (Linda Gratz)

Collusion through delayed pricing: Evidence from the Italian petrol market (Patrick Andreoli-Versbach)

Environmental Regulation, Innovation and Technology Transfer of Green Technologies in the Automotive Industry (Ashish Bharadwaj)

General Versus Limited Approaches to the Right to Make Adaptations in Copyright (Patrick Goold)

Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Varieties in India: Promoting Innovation in the Pulses Sector (Mrinalini Kochupillai)

Financial Constraints and the Role of Patents (first project); Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investments (second project) (Tatjana Nabokin)

Innovation Potential of Technology Standards and Patent Strategy (Thimo-Pascal Stoll)

Creativity in Design (Jason Du Mont)

Research Joint Ventures and Competition (Lisa Fey)

An Economic Analysis of Forum Shopping in the Case of Patent Litigations in Germany (Fabian Emil Gäßler)

Innovation under a low IP equilibrium: Evidence from the fashion industry (Julia Ju)

Remedies for infringements of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Korbinian Reiter)

The Economics of European Trade Mark Systems – Theory and Evidence for France, Germany and the U.K. (Philipp Schautschick)

Data Exclusivity Provisions in Selected Free Trade Agreements: Do They Motivate Originator Pharmaceutical Companies to Delay Entry in Different National Markets as Part of Life Cycle Management of Specific Pharmaceuticals? (Owais-Hassan Shaikh)

Capacity constraints in the electricity spot market: between competition law and REMIT (Panagiotis Tsangaris)

Copyright, Digitization and the Public Domain (Sunimal Mendis)

Competition Policy in Financial Services (Fabian Kühnhausen)

Three Essays on Competition and Innovation (Henri de Belsunce)

Authors' and their employers' incentives to engage in the open world (Alina Wernick)

In search of 'effective remedies' for innovation-led sectors: A Trans-Atlantic Study (Kalpana Tyagi)