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Europeans curious why DOJ hasn't asked their opinion on Microsoft

October 30, 1998
Web posted at: 2:00 PM EDT

by Elizabeth de Bony

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(IDG) -- BRUSSELS -- Top U.S. antitrust official Joel Klein, assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, said here Wednesday that he was certain that the U.S. had carried out all the necessary research in its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.

The comment came in response to a press suggestion at a news conference here that although some European companies are eager to supply information against Microsoft, U.S. investigators have not asked.

Under a cooperation agreement, whether the United States or European Union (EU) take the lead in an antitrust inquiry depends on where the company in question has its headquarters. And though the United States as part of this agreement has a right to ask the EU for information about Microsoft's activities in Europe, it has not done so.

"I am comfortable that there has been a thorough research," Klein said, declining to make any further comments on the issue.

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Klein and Robert Pitofsky, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, met with their EU counterparts during an annual review of antitrust activities on each side of the Atlantic. They ate breakfast with European Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert and held a half-day meeting with Alexander Schaub, head of the Commission's competition division, and Jonathan Faull, another senior EU competition official.

The two sides did touch on specific cases such as the Microsoft and Intel investigations in the United States, Klein confirmed, but few details were exchanged.

"We reported on the opening of the Microsoft trial and our expectations for when it will end," he explained. He provided no further details.

On Intel, "there was no real discussion," Pitofsky said.

Microsoft Corp., in Redmond, Wash., is at www.microsoft.com. The U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, is at www.usdoj.gov.

Elizabeth de Bony is a correspondent in the Brussels bureau of the IDG News Service.

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