Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Mar. 22, 2014
Bazaarvoice merger faces a bizarre fate after court ruling
In 2012, Bazaarvoice acquired its next largest competitor in a transaction too small to require federal premerger notification, but that didn't stop the DOJ from suing to unwind the deal. By Scott D. Stein and Marie L. Fiala
What if the government told you that you have to license your intellectual property to your closest competitor, and allow your employees to work for that same competitor and disclose your trade secrets? That is the position that one company finds itself in as a result of an adverse verdict earlier this year in an antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice in federal district court in San Francisco.
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