IN RE APPLE & AT&TM ANTITRUST LITIGATION?
Suppose your company's engineers figured out how to manufacture applications that worked on the iPhone or another Apple product. Should you manufacture and sell them, so you can share in some of Apple's success? Would such a move find support in antitrust law? On the other hand, is it possible without running afoul of antitrust laws for a competitor make a similar product?
CODE is not manufactured. It is written, and downloaded. MOST iPhone apps are NOT written by Apple, but they have to be approved by Apple to be sold through the Apple apps store. It is literally impossible for COMPETITION to violate anti-trust laws. The target of anti-trust laws is literally the OPPOSITE of competition. It is POSSIBLE to violate patent law of copyright law by producing a similar product, but not anti-trust law.
Not sure what anti-trust has to do with this. It is perfectly legal for Apple to keep its computer code "trade secret" and deny support for any third-party software being used on machines it produced. However, once the machine has been sold, they can't prevent anyone from taking it apart, including disassembling the computer code, to find out exactly how it works.
Whether someone else can then duplicate its functions for their own profit would be a matter of patent law. Copyright law does not cover any idea, concept, process, function or system.
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