Intellectual Property Law

Google?s Antitrust ?Charm Offensive? and Consumer Watchdog.Org?s Response

By Lee.Gesmer

Surely, Google doesn’t want to go through what so many dominant companies in the U.S. have had to suffer - government antitrust scrutiny, in the form of merger/joint venture challenges and even, God forbid, a Microsoft-like antitrust suit.  Intensive antitrust scrutiny is the price of success in the U.S., and while it can’t be avoided altogether, perhaps it can be minimized. Or so Google hopes.

To that end, Google has made available a webinar entitled “Google, Competition and Openness.” Consumerwatchdog.org is not buying it, and their “anonymous mark-up” of the document (giving it a grade of “F”), is embedded from Scribd.com, below.

Anonymous Analysis of Google Charm Offensive

Full post as published by Mass Law Blog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).