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Bell Systems was precluded from entering many markets (and forced to offer its patents to anyone) because of the 1956 consent decree that permitted its ongoing monopoly in telecommunications.

A formal study of some of the consequences:

https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/how_antitrust...



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