ABUSE OF A DOMINANT POSITION - Advocatennet
ABUSE OF A DOMINANT POSITION - Advocatennet
ABUSE OF A DOMINANT POSITION - Advocatennet
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II. Exclusionary abuses: analytical framework (9)<br />
- Microsoft -<br />
• Justifications: “special responsibility” of the dominant company<br />
– Refusal to deal: weighing the incentives for innovation (paragraphs 697 – 710)<br />
• those for Microsoft not chilled?<br />
• those for competitors taken for granted?<br />
– Tying: integrating new functionalities into existing product (paragraph 1150)<br />
• adding functionalities is fine, but tying product must also be offered on stand-alone basis, even if there<br />
is only limited demand for it.<br />
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