Philips Beats Antitrust Claims in Ultrasound Copyright Case

A medical equipment maintenance company that fired back at Philips North America LLC’s copyright lawsuit, by accusing it of anticompetitive conduct, failed to show Philips unlawfully monopolized the market by refusing to grant access to its diagnostic software for ultrasound machines, a Seattle federal court said in an order entered Tuesday.

Philips sued Summit Imaging Inc. for alleged copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation, among other things, saying Summit hacked its systems to enable features that Philips customers hadn’t paid for.

Summit countered that Philips violated antitrust law by refusing to provide access to software necessary to service the machines. ...