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Planned Obsolescence & Antitrust: The Circumstantial Evidence of Collusion and the Barriers to Entry to the Market

By  |  June 5, 2017

By Jesús Alfonso Soto Pineda Sr. (Universidad Externado de Colombia)

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    Abstract: After a brief presentation of the conceptual framework of planned obsolescence, nourished by its precedents, this paper analyses two connection points between the antitrust and the planning of the lifetime of products. Thus, the document attributes to the planned obsolescence a relevance in competition law terms, based on its ability to be a circumstantial evidence of collusive behaviour, as well as for its ability to create barriers to entry to the markets.

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