Striking a Delicate Balance: Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Contract and Standardization in the Computer Industry

Authors

Maureen A. O'Rourke, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

ISSN

0897-3393

Publisher

Harvard Law School

Language

en-US

Abstract

Shortly before the Second Intermational Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") brought a widely publicized suit against the Microsoft Corporation. In its complaint, the DOJ charged Microsoft with engaging in a variety of antitrust wrongs connected with its alleged monopoly position in the market for personal computer ("PC") operating system software. The Conference panel on Antitrust and the Internet, which had planned to focus on how antitrust law affects standard-setting efforts and the implications for the Intermet, quickly abandoned that topic in favor of discussion of the Microsoft suit.

Recommended Citation

Maureen A. O'Rourke, Striking a Delicate Balance: Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Contract and Standardization in the Computer Industry , in 12 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 1 (1998).
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