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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
For purposes of antitrust laws, I think our house forms a separate geographic market for boxes on the step. It's likely a larger market than, for example, Rhode Island, which is just next door.
Also, do stores still actually exist? Huh. I thought they'd gone the way of the fax machine.
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I clearly do not understand antitrust. My biggest client was gunshy about antitrust because a former firm had sued a small service company for patent infringement of a method of repair patent. Within a year that flipped into defending antitrust counterclaims.
So when we wanted to sue another big auto supplier for patent infringement of a transfer case patent HQ flew out DC antitrust counsel to bless the filing. I thought it routine, and no big deal. To get the patent we had to avoid a dozen prior systems that anyone could use.
DC guy says “no no no, if we define the market as the exact transfer cases covered by your patent this lawsuit is an attempt to monopolize,” or whatever the fuck it was we weren’t supposed to be doing.
Finally I just said “dude that would mean you should never file a patent lawsuit, and we should advise HQ to stop even getting patents.”
He kind of looked at the ground for a second then flew back home after blessing my case!
Define the market right (say Guernica posts) and I have a monopoly here. It is stuff and nonsense.
