Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH was unable to escape antitrust counterclaims on Tuesday brought by Ross Intelligence Inc., a competing legal research service, in a copyright battle in Delaware federal court.
Judge Leonard P. Stark found that Ross provided sufficient evidence to make a “tying” claim under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act against Reuters, which owns the legal research service Westlaw.
Ross argued that Reuters and Westlaw “unlawfully tie their legal search tool to their public law database to maintain their dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.”
Under a tying arrangement, consumers can only buy a product on ...
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