Bundling as Exclusionary Pricing to Maintain Monopoly

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Jonathan Rubin, Jun 10, 2008

A controversy in antitrust policy is raging over two principal and competing approaches to liability rules for bundling. Under the rule adopted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the appropriate legal standard for liability for bundling is based on well-settled, general principles of monopolization law. Under the LePage’s decision, bundling may be deemed unlawful exclusionary con