Patent Law

Bully

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

The rabid FTC aside and amok, the U.S. Justice Department has had little stomach to enforce antitrust violations. The Americans let Microsoft off the antitrust hook with a smirk, while the Europeans fined them $1.16 billion. Now Intel, its corporate culture an apparent breeding ground for bully bullshitters, as evidenced by recent top brass opinions regarding "patent fairness," face their own European antitrust swat. The European Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, will announce Wednesday its fine for Intel's antitrust shenanigans. One thing these little men don't do well is learn social graces.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).