Yet the Jobsian vision was anticompetitive, argued policy experts, and a business error, thought Google.
Section 1 largely addresses situations involving anticompetitive behavior of two or more entities working in concert.
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After years of anticompetitive allegations abroad, Intel's antitrust problems are coming home to roost.
"If you give volume discounts, the losing competitor can sue you for anticompetitive behavior, " Frank said.
It "integrates" new pro-Microsoft, anticompetitive (and antiuser) features the way previous versions "integrated" a Netscape-slaying browser.
The issue is whether these deals, which the pharmaceutical industry prefers to call patent settlements, are anticompetitive.
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For competitive purposes, does this deal have the same competitive or anticompetitive effect of a merger or acquisition?
The company has been repeatedly sued by smaller competitors for anticompetitive practices and, in one case, for hacking.
New conduct is not necessarily anticompetitive conduct, and if our antitrust regulation does not accept this, we all lose.
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But government officials believe the number of potentially anticompetitive patent settlements is increasing.
The FTC called the deal anticompetitive and sued Watson, now called Actavis Inc.
She has covered the legal and legislative landscape relating to mergers, cartels and anticompetitive activity for more than a decade.
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But it is almost certainly not the case that the restriction itself is anticompetitive if it is found to exist.
The FTC routinely examines companies to determine whether they are involved in anticompetitive behavior, often after receiving allegations from rivals.
It took the position that the marketplace, not government regulators or courts, provides the ideal check on anticompetitive business practices.
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Google has denied any anticompetitive practices and has repeatedly said it creates its services to benefit users, rather than other websites.
This is not a case of big government trolling the Internet, but of ensuring that the Internet remains free from anticompetitive behavior.
The current antitrust rules for limiting anticompetitive conduct by monopolists focus on forcing monopolists to share access to their goods or services.
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"Now courts are much better at recognizing how behavior can be anticompetitive even if it's characterized by a pro-competitive veneer, " Balto says.
In meetings with some complaining websites, Google executives have held firm that the practice wasn't anticompetitive, according to representatives of those sites.
Then dare Mr. Obama to try to defend an anticompetitive, antigrowth tax.
It has some language that might strike some consumers as downright anticompetitive.
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Just because that list is limited to only a few companies does not mean the initiative is anticompetitive, especially where trademarks are concerned.
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Sounds fishy to us -- real fishy, as we're sure that there were possible anticompetitive issues 18 months ago, just like there may be now.
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Mr. Ghosh said courts in antitrust inquiries may look favorably when a company can articulate a legitimate business justification for behavior alleged to be anticompetitive.
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One common anticompetitive practice is to give retailers and restaurateurs free fridges or soda fountains if they refuse to sell soft drinks from rival firms.
Sewell added that Intel's controversial rebate scheme had no anticompetitive motive.
It filed an antitrust lawsuit in June alleging that Intel engages in anticompetitive behavior designed to lock AMD out of market for PC and server microprocessors.
But prosecuting pro-competitive conduct is almost certainly more costly than mistakenly allowing anticompetitive conduct because mechanisms are in place to mitigate the latter but not the former.
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