10 Information Policy

Your leading rival sues you for infringing several key patents. Do you countersue, using your own patent portfolio as a weapon, negotiate a cross-license, or straight-out acquire the rival? You are facing low-priced competition from gray-market imports of your own discounted products intended for markets in Asia. Can you block these imports to support higher prices in the United States? Seeing consolidation coming, and hoping to support a larger R&D program, you seek to acquire one of your direct competitors. Will the antitrust authorities block your deal? You introduce a new version of your product, and rivals threaten to sue you under the antitrust laws because you have altered the interface they rely on for their ...

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