Competition Policy for Information Platform Technology

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.