ANTI-TRUST LAWS

DEFINED

• Enforced by the government, to regulate trade and commerce
• By preventing unlawful restraints, price fixings, and monopolies

EXAMPLE

• When Microsoft violated Netscape's Anti-Trust laws

THE SHERMAN ACT

• It was the first Anit-Trust law passed
• It was passed in 1890, by the U.S. congress

THE CLAYTON ACT

• This was the second set of Anti-trust laws
• Passed in 1914