Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Since its foundation in 1966, the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (formerly Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law) has been the leading research institution in the area of intellectual property rights. For decades the Institute has attracted generations of leading IP scholars from all over the world to conduct research in its inspiring atmosphere, which includes the richest specialized library in the world. Many leading text books and commentaries, which long ago became dominant in the IP area, were produced at the Institute.