Brussels, 07/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - On 7 April, as part of the major reform in competition rules to enter into force on 1 May, the European Commission adopted a new regulation on new modalities for the application of the competition policy to technology transfer agreements (granting of patents, know-how and software copyright). Licensing agreements are, in theory, banned by competition rules (article 81). At the moment, to find a happy medium between competition protection and protection...