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Antitrust laws are explicitly anti-IP strengthening.
Myers Law Group 19 [Corporate IP litigation firm. “What Happens When Intellectual Property Laws Clash with Antitrust Laws?” December 22, 2019. https://www.themyerslg.com/blog/2019/12/what-happens-when-intellectual-property-laws-clash-with-antitrust-laws/]
Intellectual property laws protect copyrights, trademarks, and patents and grant the owner somewhat of a monopoly to use those rights. Conversely, antitrust laws discourage any type of monopoly or behavior that would be considered anticompetitive. As expected, these two tenets of business in the United States inherently clash against each other at times.
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