Intellectual property rights: The US Supreme Court reverses its interpretation on the presumption of market power in the context of a tied selling involving IP rights on the tying product (Illinois Tool Works)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – USA Supreme Court, March 1, 2006, Illinois Tool Works Inc. et al. v. Independent Ink Inc, No. 04-1329 In the first quarter of 2006, the United States Supreme Court, now presided over by Judge Roberts, appointed by President G.W. Bush, issued three landmark rulings in antitrust matters. These rulings give an idea of the jurisprudential trend of what has become the "Roberts Court", which can now be cited from the name of its President. This number is significant in so far as the Court limits itself to one or two antitrust judgments per year on average in the best years, or even less. These judgments concern, in all three cases, private actions in the