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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14409)	11/25/1997 11:57:00 AM
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Antitrust cases taken overseas news.com William Kovacic, a professor specializing in antitrust issues at Virginia's George Mason University School of Law, agreed. He said U.S. companies are increasingly turning to foreign governments to curb alleged anticompetitive practices. "The possibility that you can gain leverage over commercial opponents by going to a foreign competition tribunal is gaining broader awareness in the business world," Kovacic said. He added that while Canada, Venezuela, and Brazil are all possibilities, the EC remains the most likely forum for enforcing an action against a competitor. "The European Commission bull's eye of enforcement is significantly larger than the U.S. enforcement bull's eye," Kovacic said, meaning that European laws are more expansive, especially when applied to companies that are dominant in a given industry. "More and more, firms that operate in a truly global environment like Microsoft and Intel are going to have to consider the possible consequence of their business choices in a large number of foreign jurisdictions." This article goes on with a lot of Microspin about how the EU didn't make any difference with SCO, which sounds quite improbable to me. Can you actually buy Xenix anymore? Poor Bill, all these legal roadblocks on the path to world domination. Slade Gorton probably can't do him any good with the EU, it'll be a lot harder to get their enforcement budget zeroed. It's just not fair! Of course, the Encarta article on monopoly had some (ironic in this context) Microspin at the end of it, too. Outside the U.S.-and especially in Great Britain and Western Europe-no comparable effort has been made to use government power to enforce competition and prevent the emergence of monopoly in industry. Historically, these nations have taken a more tolerant view of the legality of monopolistic arrangements and practices. Recently, however, some antitrust statutes have been enacted in the European Union nations. "Monopoly," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. I wonder if that last bit was in the original Funk and Wagnal's? I guess those EU guys out to consult the above canonical legal reference to understand their proper roll in this matter. Cheers, Dan.