Philips Medical Attempts of Monopolization in USA
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I’m a small Veteran-owned medical device company in Dallas TX.
We’ve been in business for over 20 years providing Hospitals Doctors Offices, Independent Imaging Centers, OEMs and International Hospitals with MRI parts, service, and support.
In 2022, Philips North America, a foreign-owned company, sued my company and me.
While certainly anyone has the right to seek redress in a court the claims made must be factual. Philips knew or should have known that the charges they made were and are inaccurate.
Philips has hired a team of high-priced lawyers to flood me with motions, made discover drops of over 400,000 documents in an attempted proceeding, not designed for redress, but in my opinion to attempt to control or Monopolize the market.
Of course, I am working with the FDA and other government agencies but while I’m in litigation I can expect little help with getting answers to the claims Philips is making that I believe are false.
This is a patient safety issue and Philips not only is ignoring FDA regulations, they are making FDA-required documentation illegal, of course, it is not illegal, but I am one of the many Indepenant Service Providers that Philips has decided to litigate to waste time, money and resources in frivolous litigation.
The FDA once again is ignoring its responsibility to protect all Americans, as the actions by Philips is alarming as this leads to machines that cannot be repaired.
While I have sheltered all the costs to this point, I now ask for aid from partners in my industry as well as Americans who are fed up with Big Corporations filing vexatious litigation in an attempt to limit competition and force the ISO out of business.
I have added a link to the Jury Trail of another OEM below, I would dare you to read this and see the points we have highlighted.
If you would like a copy to download, please contact me directly.
We appreciate anyone willing to aid against this restrictive litigation..
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- In United States antitrust law, monopolization is illegal monopoly behavior. The main categories of prohibited behavior include exclusive dealing, price discrimination, refusing to supply an essential facility, product tying and predatory pricing. Monopolization is a federal crime under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. It has a specific legal meaning, which is parallel to the "abuse" of a dominant position in EU competition law, under TFEU article 102. It is also illegal in Australia under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA). Section 2 of the Sherman Act states that any person "who shall monopolize . . . any part of the trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations shall be deemed guilty of a felony." Section 2 also forbids "attempts to monopolize" and "conspiracies to monopolize". Generally this means that corporations may not act in ways that have been identified as contrary to precedent cases.
Co-organizers (4)
Marshall Shannon
Organizer
Lancaster, TX
Tom Quinn
Beneficiary
Aleta Cronce
Co-organizer
David Milligan
Co-organizer