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Government Intervention And Antitrust Law
1,714 wordsGovernment Intervention in Individual Markets: A Look at Government Intervention and Antitrust Law via the Microsoft Case Growth and Development in the US Economy In light of recent developments, I took a different approach to this paper. The Microsoft Antitrust case has been somewhat of a phenomenon that has become one of the most prominent cases in recent years. Because of this, I decided to look at government intervention into individual markets, along with antitrust law, via that particular ...
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1,674 words... p any competitor product they wish, but they are not allowed to disable features of our products, (Just Dept v MS 2). Second, the government is contending that the terms of Microsoft's non-disclosure agreements are an obstacle in the way of their attempts to gather evidence for their investigation. Microsoft says that their non-disclosure agreements are no different than those of most companies within the software industry, as well as outside it. Finally, there is the matter of the competiti...
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965 wordsTying: Right or Wrong If we discuss the important tying case between Eastman Kodak Co. V. image Technical Services, Inc. , 112 S. Ct. 2072 (1992), the decree prohibited not only tying, i. e. , conditioning sales of film on the purchase of photo-finishing, but also bundling, i. e. , offering film with or without photofinishing, or the use of coupons. In terminating the decree, the court eliminated the ban on tying as well as on bundling. Court has terminated an anti monopoly decree over the gover...
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2,389 wordsEconomics The merger wave has had a substantial impact on the work of the antitrust enforcement agencies. In fiscal year 1998 there were over 4700 merger filings under the Hart-Scott-Radio Act approximately 28 % greater than fiscal year 1997 (Merger Wave, 1997), and the largest volume of merger filings in history. Nowadays, merger started playing an important part of the economy development. Merger waves are not a new phenomenon, but are there anything new or different about the current merger w...
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4,756 wordsMicro + Soft The Split of an Empire Kendra Phelps BUS 415. 3 / Business Law Rob Goodwin July 5, 2000 Table of Contents I. Introduction: The Allegations and the Laws 3 II. Introduction: The Proof 4 III. Trial 5 Table 16 IV. The Proposal 8 V. Microsoft's Response 9 VI. The Foes and Their Thoughts 11 VII. Current Status and Discussion 12 VIII. Recommendations 15 References 18 Micro + Soft The Split of an Empire Could the megalosaurus business that was conceived in 1975 really be split in two or thr...
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9,922 wordsInternational Legal Considerations This chapter covers a wide range of regulations, procedures, and practices that fall into three categories: regulations that exporters must follow to comply with U. S. law; procedures that exporters should follow to ensure a successful export transaction; and programs and certain tax procedures that open new markets or provide financial benefits to exporters. Export Regulations General Introduction The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) regulate the export...
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4,602 wordsInternational Legal Considerations This chapter covers a wide range of regulations, procedures, and practices that fall into three categories: regulations that exporters must follow to comply with U. S. law; procedures that exporters should follow to ensure a successful export transaction; and programs and certain tax procedures that open new markets or provide financial benefits to exporters. Export Regulations General Introduction The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) regulate the export...
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Department Of Justice Bill Gates
2,043 wordsIts time to break up Microsoft Monopoly A couple of years ago, a copier company was found guilty of tying when it required consumers to purchase a maintenance plan along with its copier. Such is the case when on May 18, 1998 attorney generals from 20 states, and the District of Columbia and the US Department of Justice filed historic antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft Corporation. The US Department of Justice and 20 states are claiming Microsoft is conducting business in violation of the Sherm...
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Federal Trade Commission United States Government
2,605 wordseconomic Microsoft And Government The economic system of the United States is modeled after the theory of capitalism. " Capitalism supports free enterprise private business operating without government regulation (Janda 22). " The United States does regulate private businesses. Sometimes special circumstances arise which threaten to weaken the overall economic stability of the country. In order to sufficiently deal with these situations, the United States government has passed many law...
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1,651 wordsAmericas century-old antitrust law is increasingly irrelevant to our modern global information technology market. This law is obsolete, in accordance to the current Microsoft situation, because in the past there wasnt technology as there is now. Recently the government has been accusing Microsoft as being a monopoly. " Techno-Optimists" claim that " efforts by government to promote competition by restraining high-tech firms that acquire market power will only stifle competition. &...
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3,736 wordsThe Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) has been under investigation since 1990 for alleged antitrust violations. The Department of Justice (DOJ) feels that Microsoft has a monopoly in the field of operating systems (OSs), and that Microsoft has traditionally cemented this monopoly through unlawful exercises of monopoly power. As a result, the DOJ got Microsoft to sign a consent decree addressing Microsoft's illegal pricing policies and overly restrictive non-disclosure agreements. However, Micros...
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1,852 wordsSince Microsoft Antitrust Microsoft Antitrust Since 1990, a battle has raged in the United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality, and should therefore be stopped, while Microsoft and its supporters cl...
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