1.   All these actions, according to critics, add up to Microsoft restricting competition in the market, inhibiting innovation and ultimately hurting the consumer.

2.   Can strong protection actually inhibit innovation?

3.   Government approval for that standard, they say, will inhibit innovation and drive up costs to consumers as the distinction blurs between personal computers and television sets.

4.   Others fear the CellPro case sets a precedent that could inhibit innovation in the future.

5.   The argument that the current market structure inhibits innovation has worked well for the DOJ in its case against Microsoft.

6.   This requirement for cooperation tends to inhibit innovation and is the first barrier to language evolution, Krakauer said in a telephone interview.