But, unlike the drug industry, the computer industry does not work by companies using patents to exclude competition.

That, Disney says, demonstrates "the extent of AOL's power and the ability to exclude competition."

The story with Apple appears to be different because Apple seems to want to use its patents to exclude competition.

I don't know of any other case in the computer industry where a monopolist like Apple has tried to use its intellectual property to exclude competition.

Rather than innovating, right holders find it much easier to exclude competition.

The benefits of wider choice and lower prices will not be there if we exclude foreign competition.

But Motorola maintained that the N.T.T. standard was intended to exclude foreign competition.

The Supreme Court defines monopoly power as "the power to control prices or exclude competition."

This is why I am concerned by those who wish to exclude competition and change as we will be the poorer for it.

The company also reasserted its position that it did not possess monopoly power because it did not control prices or exclude competition.