Title
IP-Related Refusals to Deal. Part 1: Updating the Intel-Intergraph Controversy
Author
Richard H Stern
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
Abstract
Considerable attention has focused on US District Court Judge Jackson's preliminary fact findings about the Microsoft half of the Wintel monopoly. But the November 5, 1999, decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, exonerating allegedly monopolistic conduct of the Intel half of Wintel-dom, has gone almost unremarked. This month's Micro Law updates the July-August 1998 Micro Law column (pp. 4-6, 78-81) on Wintel restraints on technology advances and refusals to deal based on intellectual property (IP) rights. It is reasonably likely that this controversy will end up in the Supreme Court in a year or two, because of the conflicting decisions in different federal courts of appeals discussed here.
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