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As always in antitrust litigation, market definition is key. Fortress says Apple and Intel s new definitions aren t better: the patents are the same, and it s still about technical fields (not specific functions ). Fortress furthermore argues some of the patents do not fit [Apple and Intel s] new market definitions.
The next step is to establish market power in a given market. Here, Fortress criticizes that the complaint does not identify a single price much less a supracompetitive one that anyone has ever paid to license any of Defendants’ patents (just damages demands). Fortress furthermore says the complaint doesn t plead aggregation in the sense of having acquired all or even most of the substitutes in the alleged markets, or that Defendants have aggregated the most important substitutes i.e., the crown jewels in any of the markets. And Fortress argues that makret power alone wouldn t suffice: reduced output is allegedly an indispensable additional requirement i