United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later
Ten years have passed since the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 states filed their landmark antitrust case against Microsoft and the trial of the lawsuit began in federal district court in Washington, D.C. This major conference, United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later, looked back over the last ten years and explored the lasting lessons and deeper meanings of the case for Microsoft, for the software and technology industries, and for antitrust law and enforcement. more >
Ten years have passed since the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 states filed their landmark antitrust case against Microsoft and the trial of the lawsuit began in federal district court in Washington, D.C. This major conference, United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later, looked back over the last ten years and explored the lasting lessons and deeper meanings of the case for Microsoft, for the software and technology industries, and for antitrust law and enforcement.
United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later, was held Friday and Saturday, September 12-13, 2008, in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. Sponsored by the Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, this conference was the first retrospective to examine the lawsuit and its aftermath from the perspective of many of the participants in the original case and trial.
For more information, see the Conference Overview section.
(Berkman Fellow Doc Searls photographed the conference; see http://flickr.com/photos/docsearls/sets/72157607263718431/.)
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Welcome from Dean Kagan
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan's opening remarks.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Panel III
Frank Fisher, Doug Melamed, Harry First, Keith Hylton, and Jay Himes debate the meaning of the Microsoft case and remedy in: Assessing Market Power and Anticompetitve Conduct in Dynamic, Innovative Driven Markets: Economic and Legal Lessons from US v. Microsoft
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Panel II
Andrew Chin, David Heiner, Edward Felten, and Steve Holtzman tackle one of the thorniest and least resolved issues raised by the case: Integration, Product Improvement and Tying: Access or Code; Liability or Remedy
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Remarks and Discussion: David Boies
David Boies, founding partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner and the DOJ's special trial counsel in the Microsoft case.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Keynote Address: Brad Smith
Senior Vice President and General Counsel to Microsoft Corp. Brad Smith discusses some of the issues faced by Microsoft during and in the wake of US v. Microsoft.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Remarks and Discussion: Minding the Gap
Professor of Law at Howard University, Andy Gavil
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Panel I
John Cove, Karma Giulianelli, Steve Houck, and Tam Ormiston revisit strategic and tactical litigation lessons from the trial as they address: Integrating Substantive Law, Strategy and Trial Tactics In a Complex Monopolization Case.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Opening Remarks from Phil Malone
Phil Malone, Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard and former lead prosecutor on the Microsoft case for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, opens the conference and sketches the long history of Microsoft's antitrust battles.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Panel IV: US v. Microsoft and the Media
A highly dynamic discussion among three noted journalists who covered the Microsoft trial, Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post, Joe Nocera of the New York Times and Fortune Magazine, and John Wilke of the Wall Street Journal, and Microsoft's chief spokesman at trial and current general manager of public relations and public affairs, Mark Murray.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Roundtable Discussion
Join Harvard Law antitrust professor Einer Elhauge as he moderates a roundtable discussion featuring Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, former DOJ Antitrust head Doug Melamed, and BU law professor Keith Hylton, reflecting on the still potent legacy of one of the most important business trials in recent history.
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