Josef Drexl

Josef Drexl is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (since 2002), Honorary Professor at the University of Munich and Member of the Bavarian Academy of Science. As the Chair of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) Cooperation Project, he is responsible for a globally leading master’s course on intellectual property and competition law (see www.miplc.de). Professor Drexl is an expert in both competition law and intellectual property law. The competition law aspects of intellectual property and international issues of both IP and competition law are among his major research interests. Inter alia, he conducted and authored a comparative study on the interface between competition law and copyright law on behalf of the World Intellectual Property Office and ran a project on competition law in developing countries. More recently, his research focus shifted more to the regulation of the digital economy where he inter alia covers issues of the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence.