Commission Actions

consumer representatives, enforcement officials, academics, and executives of leading computer, health care, financial services, entertainment, defense, manufacturing, packaged goods and advertising...

Federal Trade Commission staff members have urged the Patent and Trademark Office to proceed cautiously in developing new guidelines for its handling of applications for software patents, to avoid...

Federal Trade Commission staff has advised a network of 35 hematologist/oncologists in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area that the network does not appear to violate federal antitrust laws. The for...

The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges that the nation's largest sellers of fast-turnaround verbatim news transcripts entered into agreements that ended competition between them. The FTC...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced an action designed to ensure that the kind of competition that has resulted in lower prices, frequent-user discounts and other promotional incentives in...

Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc. (GANSAT), a subsidiary of Gannett Co., Inc., has agreed to pay a $30,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the...

The Federal Trade Commission has secured an agreement from Hoechst AG to maintain competition for four drugs, including a hypertension and cardiac drug -- a once-a-day dosage of diltiazem, one of the...

A Federal Trade Commission settlement in a business opportunity fraud case will net approximately $360,000 for the consumers who invested thousands of dollars each to own display racks featuring "Dr...

A federal district court judge upheld Federal Trade Commission charges against NCH, Inc. and its principals for their roles in a fraudulent telefunding scheme. The FTC had alleged that the defendants...