Russian antitrust regulation and practice form legal ways to investigate anticompetitive practice by digital platforms operators. Such platforms are digital software and subject to intellectual property rights. Meanwhile the issues connected with application of unilateral conduct restrictions to the use of intellectual property rights still have not been resolved from antitrust regulation perspective. Artificially created collisions still exist. Author analyses some of the basic backgrounds of this collision. Meaning comparison of the legal status of the intellectual property owner the status of the company with monopolistic position on the market.
D. A. Gavrilov (Sun,) studied this question.