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8!T.!SCHREPEL,!The!Microsoft!case!by!the!numbers:!comparison!between!U.S.!and!E.U.,!Le!Concurrentialiste,!
Février!2014!http://tinyurl.com/q56xh7d!
9!Geoffrey!Manne!et!Joshua!Wright,!Innovation!And!The!Limits!of!Antitrust,!http://tinyurl.com/qxqx9ve!

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10!Alan!Devlin!et!Michael!Jacobs,!Anticompetitive!Innovation!and!the!Quality!of!Invention,!Berkeley!Technology!
Law!Journal,!2012,!http://tinyurl.com/nvrnfxj!
11!FTC,!Google!Agrees!to!Change!Its!Business!Practices!to!Resolve!FTC!Competition!Concerns!In!the!Markets!for!
Devices!Like!Smart!Phones,!Games!and!Tablets,!and!in!Online!Search,!Janvier!2013!
http://tinyurl.com/oazwgas!
12Commitments,!case!COMP/C=3/39.740,!http://tinyurl.com/pgjbu5w!