Microsoft's anticompetitive actions have already restricted consumer choice and deterred "innovations that would truly benefit consumers."

The settlement is the first case of the commission's taking anticompetitive action against two generic drug makers.

That night, a night of full moon, the Firewater, steaming out of the north, saw the low silhouette of the Krakatoa at anchor, and took anticompetitive action.

"The better view and the correct view is that antitrust law does not allow for worthy purposes to offset the anticompetitive actions," he said.

Abbott denied any wrongdoing and said it would refrain from anticompetitive actions on infant formula.

Under Leibowitz' guidance in August 2010 the Commission settled with Intel to restore competition and innovation that was lost as a result of Intel's alleged anticompetitive actions.

"Microsoft's anticompetitive actions," he wrote, "trammeled the competitive process through which the computer software industry generally stimulates innovation" to "the optimum benefit of consumers."

The Justice Department is looking into whether Monsanto engaged in anticompetitive action in the herbicide market, which it dominates with its Roundup weed killer.

"The general language of the Sherman Act should not be interpreted to prohibit anticompetitive actions by the States in their governmental capacities as sovereign regulators."

The trade representative accuses Telmex of several anticompetitive actions.