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FTC Requires Asset Divestitures Before Allowing Boston Scientifics $27 Billion Acquisition of Guidant Corporation
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a consent agreement that will protect competition and consumers in several significant medical device markets affected by Boston Scientific’s proposed $27...
Texas Doctors' IPA Agrees to Settle Price Fixing Charges
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A physicians’ independent practice association (IPA) in Texas has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it engaged in unlawful collective bargaining to set fees its members would...
Oct25
Competition Policy and the Real Estate Industry: A Public Workshop hosted by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice
The FTC and the Department of Justice hosted a public workshop that focused on issues related to the competitiveness of the residential real estate industry, and covered topics such as multiple...
FTC Resolves Aloha Petroleum Litigation
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced that, because of changed circumstances, it has asked the Federal District Court for the District of Hawaii to dismiss the FTC’s complaint seeking an...
Dual Consent Orders Resolve Competitive Concerns About Chevrons $18 Billion Purchase of Unocal, FTCs 2003 Complaint Against Unocal
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Two consent orders announced by the Federal Trade Commission today both resolve the competitive concerns about Chevron Corporation’s (Chevron) proposed $18 billion acquisition of Unocal Corporation...
Northwest New Mexico Physicians Agree to Settle FTC Charges That They Fixed Prices
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San Juan IPA, Inc., a physicians’ independent practice association operating in northwestern New Mexico, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it orchestrated and carried out...
FTC Halts Physician Price-Fixing in Cincinnati Area
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a consent order settling charges that an independent practice association, representing two orthopaedic groups in Cincinnati, Ohio, violated antitrust laws...
Chicago-Area Physicians Group Agrees Not to Fix Prices
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Under the terms of a consent order with the Federal Trade Commission announced today, a Chicago-area physicians’ group has agreed to stop collectively bargaining on behalf of its members, as such...
FTC Seeks Court Order to Force Blockbuster to Comply with Premerger Rules
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The Federal Trade Commission today filed a motion in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pursuant to Section 7A(g)(2) of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18a(g)(2), to require Blockbuster...
Feb18
Town Meetings on Patent System Reform
The FTC, the National Academies' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) co-sponsored a nationwide series of Town...
Jan14
Oil Industry Merger Effects
The FTC hosted a public conference to examine two recent studies focusing on the price effects of mergers and concentration in the United States petroleum industry. The conference brought together a...
Protecting Competition, FTC Clears Genzyme Corp.'s $1 Billion Acquisition of Ilex Oncology, Inc.
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will conditionally allow Genzyme Corporation’s (Genzyme) proposed $1 billion acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc. (Ilex), provided the companies...
Dec15
Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protection and Competition Issues
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The workshop is the latest in a series of efforts to assess the impact of new and significant technologies on consumers and businesses. P2P file-sharing technology enables individuals to share files...
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