[ikeboy]

And don't forget trademark and copyright bullies. There's a whole bunch of brands that try to restrict distribution of their authentic products using trademark law - see e.g. https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-use..., or my previous comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079904.

As I've mentioned several times on HN, I'm currently suing TP-Link for asserting false IP claims against me. We actually just amended to add new antitrust claims, which might work, being that TP-link is the largest manufacturer in the WiFi router market by far.

[ajmurmann]

It's particularly unfortunate that trademark law in essence forces trademark holders to be bullies. Hard to come up with a law structured to cause more litigation.

[ikeboy]

Nothing in the law forces them to restrict resale of their products. If anything, it might be an antitrust violation. Some abusive patent suits might be antitrust violations as well. See e.g https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/apple-intel-file-antitrust-c...

[MaxBarraclough]

> As I've mentioned several times on HN

Please provide links when referring to old discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697693

[ikeboy]

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

This has them all

[MaxBarraclough]

Nice, thanks.