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ANTITRUST-COMPETITION-LAW5 MIN READ

Monopoly Is Not the Same as Monopolization

Explain why market power alone is not the legal issue; exclusionary maintenance or acquisition is.

Workplace moment A product lead says, "We are at 72 percent share, so legal will never let us be aggressive." The next slide proposes cutting off API access for the only rival analytics add-on. The problem is not aggression; it is the exclusion story the slide creates. Teach FTC Guide to Antitrust Laws - Single Firm Conduct + premortem review is useful because antitrust risk usually arrives as an ordinary business request, not as a legal memo. The first move is to classify the conduct before anyone debates tone or commercial convenience. Hard-core competitor coordination, such as price fixing, bid…

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