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Microsoft Antitrust Trial: About Antitrust Laws Dateline: 11/06/99 [ Online Poll - Is Microsoft Guilty? ... Source: www.macnn.com --- 9 days ago
Psystar, a Mac-clone manufacturer and defendant in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Apple, has been preparing its defense and is planning a countersuit. According to CNET, the legal battle between the two companies has been heating up for a while, beginning with Psystar's blatant modification of Mac OS X so it can be installed on its cheaper $400 PC. Apple finally filed suit on July 3rd ... ... Source: www.toptechnews.com --- 8 days ago
Psystar, the plucky Mac cloner in Doral, Fla,, has thrown down the gauntlet and countersued Apple. At a small press conference in the office of Psystar's attorneys in Palo Alto, Calif., the lawyers said they have answered Apple's original lawsuit filed July 3 and upped the ante by filing one of their own in a Northern California federal court. Psystar's View The countersuit filed Tuesday alleges that Apple is in violation of the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust acts. In particular, Psystar contends that Apple, by tying its Mac OS X operating system to Apple hardware, creates restraint of trade. Citing Microsoft and Linux as examples, Psystar attorney Colby Springer of the Antitrust law firm of Carr and Ferrell said these OS providers have no such restrictions on hardware. Psystar President Rudy Pedraza affirmed that his company believes Mac OS X is a great operating system, but customers shouldn't have to pay high hardware prices for what he termed "generic hardware." Psystar maintains it is giving customers a hardware alternative to Apple's Macintosh. Psystar's OpenPro Mac-compatible computer retails for about $1,600, half the cost of a similarly equipped Mac, while its entry-level Open Computer lists on the company's Web site for about $550. Apple's Beef In its original lawsuit, Apple charged that Psystar was damaging its intellectual property in violation of the end-user license agreement (EULA) that states Mac OS X must be installed ... Source: www.2point6billion.com --- 34 days ago
China will enforce Antitrust Laws (anti monopoly Laws or competition Laws) from Friday, August 1st, while India will put the same Laws into place by the end of this year. Antitrust Laws are expected to delay or thwart high-profile cross-border mergers and acquisitions, in the burgeoning economies, lawyers and business executives warned [...] ... Source: www.antitrustlawyerblog.com --- 32 days ago
On July 14, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the launch of a new online resource, the FTC Guide to the Antitrust Laws. This resource, written in layman’s terms summarizes the core Laws that ban unfair business practices and prevent mergers that harm consumers, and explains how Antitrust cases are brought by U.S., State, and international authorities, as well as private parties. Antitrust rules are categorized into four sections: Dealings with Competitors, Dealings in the Supply Chain, Single Farm Conduct, and Mergers. ... Source: 4lfie.com --- 33 days ago
Ive been pondering monopoly/Antitrust Laws and how these global issues might become exceedingly important to mobile phone manufacturers global strategy. Let’s take Nokia, who are at the moment the most bullish in shipping devices with powerful consumer applications, integral to their re-imagining of themselves as a ‘web company’. As the mobile moves to become the dominant [...] ... Source: msn.foxsports.com --- 29 days ago
A federal judge has dismissed several ATP officials as defendants in a lawsuit by the German Tennis Federation that challenges the tour's planned tournament restructuring. The German federation claims the Association of Tennis Professionals' tournament restructuring, which would relegate the Hamburg clay court tournament to second-tier status, violates American Antitrust Laws. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 28 days ago
Richman, 56, is permanently prevented from violating federal Antitrust and securities Laws and barred from serving as an officer or director of any public company, according to the settlement. He is ordered to pay a $150,000 civil penalty. ... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 21 days ago
American Airlines said yesterday it is seeking immunity from U.S. Antitrust Laws to enter into an alliance with British Airways and Spanish carrier Iberia on trans-Atlantic routes. However, a major rival immediately denounced the deal, saying it would give the airlines dominance over competitors. ... Source: slashdot.org --- 9 days ago
An anonymous reader sends us to CNet for news that Apple clone maker Pystar plans to countersue Apple. We discussed Apple's suit last month. "Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices. Miami-based Psystar... will sue Apple under two federal Laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, saying Apple's tying of the Mac OS to Apple-labeled hardware is 'an anticompetitive restraint of trade,' according to [an] attorney... Psystar is requesting that the court find Apple's EULA void, and is asking for unspecified damages." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ... Source: www.ft.com --- 5 days ago
European Union regulators are investigating a plan by British Airways, Iberia and American Airlines to co-operate more closely on transatlantic routes to see if it violates the EU's Antitrust Laws, EU officials said ... Source: www.ft.com --- 4 days ago
Linklaters, the law firm, has stolen a march on rivals by signing up India's leading Antitrust expert to help foreign groups navigate the country's tough new competition Laws ... Source: dallas.bizjournals.com --- 14 days ago
A Chicago company has filed a lawsuit claiming a consortium of homebuilders and home product manufacturers violated Antitrust and patent Laws and confidentiality agreements when they formed a Web site identical to a site established by the plaintiff. ...
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Psystar claims Apple's restrictions on third-party hardware makers violate U.S. Antitrust Laws. ...
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Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices. Miami-based Psystar, owned by Rudy Pedraza, will sue Apple under two federal Laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, saying Apple's tying of the Mac OS to Apple-labeled hardware is "an anticompetitive restrain of trade", according to attorney Colby Springer of Antitrust specialists Carr & Ferrell. Psystar is requesting that the court find Apple's EULA void, and is asking for unspecified damages. Psystar's attorneys are calling Apple's allegations of Psystar's copyright infringement "misinformed and mischaracterized". Psystar argues that its OpenComputer product is shipped with a fully licensed, unmodified copy of Mac OS X, and that the company has simply "leveraged open source-licensed code including Apple's OS" to enable a PC to run the Mac operating system. ... Source: weblogs.baltimoresun.com --- 8 days ago
Consumerworld tipped us off to a Wall Street Journal story about a Supreme Court ruling last year that allows manufacturers to set minimum prices for their products , and to require retailers to honor those prices. According to the article, companies in the same industry can't collude with each other to set prices --- that would violate Antitrust Laws --- but a business could stop working with a retailer who did not abide by those policies. Some companies allow stores to sell products for less as long as they don't publicize those lower prices. It's kind of the way that scratch'n'dent or salvage grocers work --- they often make agreements with their suppliers not to undermine sales at traditional markets and drug stores by advertising how low their prices are. But that kind of policy presents a challenge to online retailers, the WSJ article points out, because by their nature they alert consumers to prices in the market. ... Source: www.techdirt.com --- 30 days ago
Once "unauthorized" Apple clone maker, Psystar, was sued by Apple, we fully expected it to challenge the legality of Apple's EULA (end user license agreement) which forbade putting the software on non-Apple hardware (a provision that even Apple has been known to ignore ). The comments to our post suggested that a more likely option would be for Psystar to claim that Apple was violating Antitrust Laws in requiring the software and hardware be bundled that way. Indeed, it looks like both of those predictions were correct. Psystar's response is likely to focus on both the legality of the EULA and whether or not Apple violated Antitrust law . As predicted, this case may be very interesting to watch -- and the end result could be very important for many other companies in the tech space. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story ... Source: www.law.com --- 21 days ago
A class-action suit in New Jersey's federal court alleges that title insurance companies in the state are all charging the same premiums, set by a central industry bureau, in violation of Antitrust Laws. ... Find more results for Antitrust Laws on RSSMicro.com |
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A major lawsuit has been filed against AMD and Nvidia for breaking Antitrust Laws and fixing prices on GPUs and graphics cards. ...
Guilty as charged. Photo: Courtesy of Prescriptives, Clinique, CK, M.A.C, Chanel We hate legalese as much as the rest of you, but when we heard about the possibility of free makeup, we jumped headfirst into the jargon. And here's what we found out: Department stores like Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Filene's, Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue cheated consumers by making a pact that they'd only sell cosmetic products at the suggested retail price. By doing so, there is no competition between stores, no discounts, and the consumer loses out. It's called price fixing, and it's a violation of Antitrust Laws, if you want to sound cool. And it happened with big cosmetics brands, too! CK One, CK Be, Eternity, Chanel No. 5, M.A.C, Clinique, and Prescriptives were all involved. And more. The news of the settlement is old hat, with judges ordering this is 2004. But now, finally , the stores and companies are paying for it. The stores are ordered to give away $175 million worth of products starting in 2009, a mere four and a half months away. Plus, they have to pay almost $24 million in attorney fees. (They're also never allowed to engage in price-fixing again, but that's pretty much a given.) And come 2009, the giveaway begins! Don't lose out on what you're entitled to. And free makeup is free makeup. Here's how to score your own $25 worth: 1. Sign a form that says you purchased the covered products between May 29, ...