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Microsoft, Meta back SAP in Teradata's US tying case

( August 11, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Microsoft and Meta Platforms told a US appeals court that the broad application of a rule that allows for condemnation of product designs that require products to operate in tandem — where they once operated separately — without proof of anticompetitive harm threatens to chill innovation that benefits consumers. The companies filed a brief in support of SAP in Teradata’s case accusing it of engaging in an illegal tying scheme to cement its dominance in enterprise systems. “Application of the rule of reason, rather than the modified per se rule, to tying claims based on innovations in software design will help to forestall condemnation of innovations that are competitively benign or even beneficial, while affording defendants the opportunity to establish that any competitive impacts are justified by efficiency gains,” they said. See attached file....

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