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Guessing you meant cease to exist here, but also seizing the intellectual property of Bell Labs seemed to work out in the 1956 consent decree: The Bell System
by bobbiechen 7y ago
Guessing you meant cease to exist here, but also seizing the intellectual property of Bell Labs seemed to work out in the 1956 consent decree:
The Bell System was obligated to license all its patents royalty free, and it was barred from entering any industry other than telecommunications.
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Although the 1956 consent decree was not effective in ending market foreclosure, it permanently increased the scale of US innovation.
https://voxeu.org/article/how-antitrust-enforcement-can-spur-innovation https://voxeu.org/article/how-antitrust-enforcement-can-spur...