Archive for the ‘Antitrust’ Category

Ninth Circuit: Apple did not engage in copyright misuse by restricting OS X to Apple hardware

Apple Inc. v. Psystar Corp., — F.3d —, 2011 WL 4470623 (9th Cir. September 28, 2011) [PDF] Back in 2008, Apple sued Psystar for copyright infringement arising from Psystar’s manufacture and distribution of computers preloaded with copies of Mac OS X. Psystar lost at the trial court level, with the judge rejecting its argument that [...]

Open source withstands antitrust scrutiny

Suit over drop in search engine placement dismissed

Court dismisses antitrust suit over GPL

Court declines expanding reach of antitrust laws to cover DSL and telephone services

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted defendant Verizon’s motion to dismiss in the case of Greco v. Verizon Commumications, Inc., holding that the effect of the antitrust laws should not be expanded to prohibit Verizon from refusing to provide DSL service to customers of competing local telephone providers. [...]

Subscribe to RSS Feed