Small Companies Look To Move Antitrust Suits To Europe
from the come-to-Europe-for-the-history,-stay-for-the-regulatory-smackdowns dept
Following the EU's decision to smack down Microsoft for antitrust violation, we had already noted how this could mean trouble for other successful tech companies. Of course, that just means it's an opportunity for less successful companies. The Financial Times notes that small companies that have been unable to get much traction in their attempts to brand their bigger, more established competitors as monopolists, may now try to move those cases to Europe, where they hope to receive more favorable rulings. That seems a bit extreme and, one would hope, unlikely to succeed in most cases. Still, we have seen more questionable IPOs moving to Europe, so why not more questionable antitrust cases as well?Filed Under: antitrust, europe
Companies: ibm, microsoft, psi
