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Essential facilities doctrine doesn't mix with free market, DOJ antitrust head says

By Joshua Sisco ( April 30, 2019, 04:46 GMT | Insight) -- Companies that have invested significantly in developing large amounts of data shouldn't be automatically required to share those assets with competitors, the US Justice Department's top antitrust official says. Some US policymakers think that "somehow there should be a requirement for them to share that data with a new competitor, otherwise they have such an advantage over everybody else in the market that they will never have competition," Delrahim said. "Our free market system has frowned on that," Delrahim said, referring to the essential facilities doctrine.Companies that have invested significantly in developing large amounts of data shouldn't be automatically required to share those assets with competitors, the US Justice Department's top antitrust official says. ...

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