Vertical nonprice restraints and the mail-order industry: 30% higher prices without intrabrand competition
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Vertical nonprice restraints have rarely been proscribed since the the 1977 US Supreme Court decision in Continental T.V., Inc. v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. because lower courts have misapplied the rule of reason analysis. The courts are also accepting free rider arguments that when a discounter is benefitting from the higher costs incurred by other retailers, the full-price retailer is justified in using predatory or restrictive trade practices. The free rider problem and intrabrand competition are less significant economically than the Sylvania case would imply.
Publication Name: Antitrust Law and Economics Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0003-6048
Year: 1992
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Monopoly in the computer software industry: higher prices, inferior products, and retarded innovation
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The Microsoft Corp has a monopoly in both the DOS market and the graphical user interface (GUI) market. This has been the case since at least the mid-1980s, a decade during which Microsoft has consistently maintained a market share in excess of 70%. Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows are the de facto software standards for the Intel x86 class of microprocessors. Microsoft's monopolistic practices have had a particularly devastating effect on Caldera Inc but also on some other companies in the industry. Excerpts of Caldera Inc's complaint are given.
Publication Name: Antitrust Law and Economics Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0003-6048
Year: 1997
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Monopoly in the computer software industry: higher prices, inferior products, and retarded innovation
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Caldera Inc. may have a better chance than most in its suit against the Microsoft Corp. for antitrust violations as it is a Utah corporation and Senator Orrin Hatch, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, a Republican from Utah, is the country's most powerful voice on antitrust policy. Hatch is generally pro-monopoly but may be prepared to rise above principle when one of his constituents is being harmed.
Publication Name: Antitrust Law and Economics Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0003-6048
Year: 1997
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