anticompetitive
எதிர்போட்டித்திறன்
definition
adjective
an anticompetitive advantage in the software industry
tending to stifle or suppress competition, especially when this violates antitrust laws.
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The appeals court held that these deals were 'anticompetitive' and illegal; they were undertaken for no other reason than to destroy Sun's marketing plan- and succeeded.
This ignited competitive wars that were often resolved by mergers and other 'anticompetitive' activities.
Earlier discussions have established that forward vertical integration can have competitive as well as 'anticompetitive' effects in a market.
The Recording Industry Association of America could find itself on the end of an 'anticompetitive' lawsuit filed by Internet broadcasters.
In the European Community, Article 81 of the Treaty prohibits agreements between undertakings which have an 'anticompetitive' effect within the Community and which may affect trade between Member States.
A system allowing full freedom of the press in which 'anticompetitive' campaign laws and regulations were eliminated would not degenerate into ‘the law of the jungle’.
Equally disturbing is the apparent inability of antitrust law to come up with effective solutions to 'anticompetitive' behavior.
The license fee, which is levied on every British household with a television and generates most of the BBC's funding, is under scrutiny by competitors who have long complained that the fee is an 'anticompetitive' tax.
‘Isn't there a societal value in being able to participate in a market undistorted by 'anticompetitive' acts?’ district court judge Fredrick Motz asked yesterday.
Implementing a transparency policy against the suspected 'anticompetitive' practices, the Danish Competition Council began to collect price data - transaction prices, taken from invoices - and publish them on a quarterly basis.
Shapiro thinks that lowering entry barriers should be the primary objective of the remedies, as a means of remedying the harm to competition caused by their 'anticompetitive' conduct.
Mike Pettit, president of ProComp, an anti-Microsoft group, urged state and federal investigators to look into the matter as part of their ongoing lawsuit accusing Microsoft of 'anticompetitive' practices.
But the small promotions firm Nobody in Particular Presents is fighting back with a lawsuit charging 'anticompetitive' business practices.
In Illinois, Republican Governor George Ryan just signed legislation that raises fines for 'anticompetitive' behavior to as much as $250,000 per offense.
‘This decline in part reflects the illegal, 'anticompetitive' business practices of our primary competitor, remedies for which we are pursuing in the courts,’ said CFO Roy Goodman.
In March, Japanese antitrust investigators found the company guilty of 'anticompetitive' actions - again following complaints from AMD.
Resale price maintenance and exclusive dealing are simply assumed to have had 'anticompetitive' effects and to have been adopted for such an illicit end.
But, we have filed suit against them for patent infringement and 'anticompetitive' activities, which we believe have continued systematically for many years.
These days we might describe it as an 'anticompetitive' agreement between competitors - perhaps as an illegal cartel had modern anti-trust laws applied.
Tying ‘per se’, as it is called, has been determined by the Supreme Court to be 'anticompetitive' and illegal.
The lessening of competition resulting from the merger would have resulted in farmers being 'anticompetitively' forced to accept less money for their major crops than before the merger.
Federal and State laws do not adequately address the unfairness and 'anticompetitiveness' of surcharges.
After all, when a defendant engages in technological manipulation that has no technological benefit at all, the only rational reason for its conduct must be to 'anticompetitively' foreclose rivals.
The Court assumes that firms with goals besides profit maximization will not behave 'anticompetitively' .
The problems associated with the old rules just smacked of 'anticompetitiveness' .
America also thinks the EU has got it wrong with regard to its overall competitiveness policy which it often terms Europe's 'anticompetitiveness' policy.
How are ‘antitrust injury,’ ‘injury to competition,’ and 'anticompetitiveness' related?
For years, these two airlines have tried to work out a full codeshare agreement, but US regulators have always stopped it because of feared 'anticompetitiveness' around flights bound to Heathrow from the US.
Simply put, markets with very significant power may use that power to act 'anticompetitively' .
Both the administrators and business are fed up with patents being used 'anticompetitively' .
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