Robert J. Will, Cross-Appellees v. Comprehensive Accounting Corporation, Cross

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a contract between a franchisor and a franchisee that ties data processing to franchise rights satisfies the concerted action requirement
• reversing a jury verdict on a tying claim for a failure to prove defendant had market power
• no uniqueness argument unless plaintiff shows barrier preventing rivals from offering same package at same cost
• “A tie within the meaning of antitrust depends on showing that the buyer did not want to take both products No. 18-2852 129 from the same vendor.”
• the “voluntary pur- chase of two products together” is “not a tie at all”
• “[T]he substantive theory of tying law depends on coercion to take two products as a package”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).