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Posted Friday, June 16, 2006, at 5:10 PM ET

The Justice department answers the Federal Trade Commission.

Yes, the Justice department is saying. Under ordinary circumstances, these settlements would violate antitrust law.
But these are not ordinary circumstances, the Justice department continues, because they involve patents, which by definition restrain trade.
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