This paper, written for an American Bar Association compendium on competition policy, reviews seven of the most important U.S. antitrust cases charging firms in high-technology industries with violations of Sherman Act Section II - i.e., with monopolization. The principal target firms were...

This paper reviews the history of seven quot;greatquot; U.S. monopolization cases in high-technology fields: Standard Oil (1911), the electric light cases, the ATamp;T cases, cellophane, Xerox, IBM, and Microsoft. It analyzes the extent to which innovativeness was a successful defense to...