Tying arrangements.
Dynamic leveraging.
The “firm's motivation is to
change
the structural conditions it faces
in the
future in order that it may receive
greater profits in the future.”
Louis Kaplow,
Extension of Monopoly Power through Leveraging, 85 Colum. L. Rev. 515, 524
(1985).
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Can tying channel innovation in a direction that enhances the
firm’s future profits?
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Tying products to close the standard?