Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology to foreclose competitors from the market

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor’s antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology to foreclose competitors from the market. 2. Whether the lower courts erroneously applied a heightened pleading standard to a competitor’s claims of monopoly and attempted monopoly, resulting in market foreclosure.