The FTC has enforced and will continue enforcing its consumer protection laws online to ensure that products and services are described truthfully in online ads and that consumers get what they pay for. These activities benefit consumers as well as sellers, who expect and deserve a fair marketplace. Many of...
It makes no sense -- how could the FTC file suit to block the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger? The combined organization wouldn't reach even one-third the size of Safeway, Inc. -- and that's just one among dozens of giant grocery companies. Not to mention Wal-Mart! So where's the disconnect? The...
On March 8, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") published in the Federal Register certain changes to the rules implementing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (the "Act"). The revised rules come into effect on April 7, 2005. The most significant changes under the revised rules relate to the treatment of the...
The internet is connecting the advertisers and marketers to customers from boston to bali with text, interactive graphic, videos and audio. If you're thinking about advertising on the internet, remember that many of the other forms of advertising apply to electronic marketing. Federal Trade Commission FTC has prepared this paper...
The music community is in the midst of a necessary and welcome transition to a digital business model. In this context, the paper discusses the peer-to-peer technologies about the results of a study that Future of Music Coalition FMC worked on with the Pew Internet and American Life Project concerning...
The Report issued is the fourth follow-up review the Commission has issued. To prepare the Report, the FTC tracked advertising placements in media popular with youth, reviewed ads in major media to determine whether they included rating information, and reviewed retail packaging for music products to assess the industry's level...
From the executive summary: ‘Unwanted telemarketing calls are intrusive, they are annoying, and they are all too common. When people in the U.S sit down for dinner, the last thing they need is a call from a stranger with a sales pitch. Because of the nuisance, consumers began flocking the...
This paper reviews explanations for two controversial vertical restraints commonly used in gasoline marketing: price zones and territorial restrictions. After a discussion of the relevant empirical and theoretical economics literature, it considers pro-competitive and anticompetitive theories behind the practices. Price zones may be one part of a complicated relationship between...
This white paper discusses: the report regarding challenged merger data issued by the antitrust agencies, proposed Hart-Scott-Rodino rule ("HSR") rule changes, additional challenges to consummated mergers, the FTC's disgorgement and restitution policy, the remedy for the Nestl?/Dreyer's ice cream merger, litigation under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, and the...
This article also explains about consumer-protection law, which helps with credit-related matters which includes Fair Credit Reporting Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Fair Credit Billing Act, Fair Credit Debt Collection Practices Act etc. A common mistake on credit reports is inaccurate information, such as showing the incorrect number of late...
The Federal Trade Commission FTC issued the amended Telemarketing Sales Rule TSR on January 29, 2003. This legislation gives the FTC and state attorneys general law enforcement tools to combat telemarketing fraud, give consumers added privacy protections and defenses against unscrupulous telemarketers, and help consumers tell the difference between fraudulent...
The FTC has increased its interest in health care. First, the Commission announced the formation of a Merger Litigation Task Force to focus on turning around the FTC's to date unsuccessful challenges to hospital mergers. The Task Force will review past mergers to determine whether price increases occurred and a...
This article discusses the case of FTC. On June 18, 2003, an FTC administrative judge issued an initial decision ordering divestiture in an acquisition that closed more than two years ago, in which Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) acquired the Engineering Construction and the Water Divisions of Pitt-Des Moines,...
Electronic sales of franchises soon will become a reality. Current technology, the recent adoption of the federal electronic signature law1, and a pending Federal Trade Commission rule change all are converging to make the offer and sale of franchises on the internet and by e-mail an accepted method of doing...
The Federal Trade Commission FTC has announced major amendments to the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino HSR pre-merger notification rules that will radically overhaul the scope of the exemptions available for foreign acquisitions.
Paragraph IV of the Hatch-Waxman Act provides a mechanism for the litigation of pharmaceutical patent infringement disputes. Many of these cases have been settled with "reverse payments" by the brand to the generic in return for delayed generic entry. The FTC has contested a number of these settlements with good...
Physicians are not exempt from the antitrust laws. In 1996, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published guidelines, which recognized certain “safety zones” or exceptions for physician and multi-provider networks. Under these guidelines, the FTC permitted physician networks to collectively agree on prices or pricerelated terms and jointly market their services...
In this document, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) issues its "Statement of Basis and Purpose" (“SBP”) and final amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (“amended Rule”). The amended Rule sets forth the FTC’s amendments to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“original Rule” or “TSR”). The amended Rule is issued pursuant to...
The Federal Trade Commission FTC encourages you to be skeptical when one hear a phone solicitation and to be aware of the Telemarketing Sales Rule, a new law that can help one protect himself from abusive and deceptive telemarketers. Fraudulent telemarketers try to take advantage of older people on the...
American consumers lose more than billion dollars a year to telemarketing fraud. It is no wonder that con artists in foreign countries want in on the action. Con artists are still swindling consumers with the tried and true pitches for bogus sweepstakes and vacation packages. But telephone hucksters also are...
