I have written an article about this issue which is published in the February issue of the European Competition Law Review. I perceive the two key information technologies, the computer and the Internet, as modularized systems in which higher applications depend on standard platforms. Dominance in one layer can leverage into adjacent layers and respective product markets as the cases of Intel and Microsoft demonstrate. To address the risks for competition and technological evolution the law needs to coordinate IP and antitrust law carefully.
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
Competition Policy for Information Platform Technology
About Dan Wielsch
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Senior Research Fellow, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M. and Non-Residential Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford
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