There has been a notable resurgence in antitrust litigation aimed at fostering innovation through the potential positive spillovers of technology to other firms. Its advocates argue that breaking up monopolies promotes technology dissemination and economic growth. They believe antitrust litigation enables early-stage innovation in the marketplace. However, this view oversimplifies innovation’s complexity, as it rarely follows a linear path from discovery to consumer application and often requires alternative technologies and market pathways for successful implementation.This linear perspective believing that “progress is inevitable, and we know how it will happen” fails to account for the multifaceted and iterative nature of technological progress, where multiple routes can lead to unified
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