 It was followed in 1969 by the US government's antitrust complaint, then by 19 private US antitrust complaints and one European complaint.In the end IBM settled a few of these matters but mainly won.The US government's case sustained by four US Presidents and their Attorneys General was dropped as “without merit” in 1982 by William Baxter, US President Reagans’ Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.