Innovation and Monopoly Leveraging

Fisher, Franklin M., "Innovation and Monopoly Leveraging" . DYNAMIC COMPETITION AND PUBLIC POLICY: TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND ANTITRUST ISSUES, J. Ellig, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000

Abstract:

This paper, written when Fisher was preparing for his testimony in Microsoft, discusses the circumstances in which monopoly "leveraging" makes sense as an anti-competitive act. Three cases are discussed and contrasted: The IBM case of the 1970's; the Computer Reservation System Cases of the 1980's; and the Microsoft case. Fisher was a principal economic witness in all of them, for the defense in IBM and for plaintiffs in the other two cases.

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