Fresno Computers and Seattle Softwares Are Two Computer Manufacturing Companies

question 71

Multiple Choice

Fresno Computers and Seattle Softwares are two computer manufacturing companies in the west coast of the U.S.A. They, non-contractually, agreed on a price range within which they will set the prices of their laptops. Under this situation:

• A) they are not in violation of any antitrust laws because they only agreed upon a price range, not a definite fixed price.
• B) the courts will not consider their agreement inherently anticompetitive and examine it as per the rule of reason approach.
• C) they are not in violation of any antitrust laws because there was no written agreement between the two companies regarding the price fixing.
• D) the courts will consider their act anticompetitive because price fixing agreements which merely affect price are also per se violations.

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