Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies? The Intellectual Property Guidelines Five Years Later

Richard J. Gilbert, and Willard K. Tom

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 5/1/2001)

The Microsoft antitrust case focused public attention on the role of antitrust enforcement in preserving the forces of innovation in high-technology markets. Traditionally, regulators focused on whether companies artificially hiked prices or reduced output.