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20090655: Sprint Nextel Corporation; Virgin Mobile USA, Inc.
Red Flags Rule Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension
Pure Bamboo, LLC, et al., Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment
CSE, Inc., et al.; Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment
Sami Designs LLC, et al.; Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment
Metropolitan Home Mortgage, Inc., also d/b/a Wholesale Home Lenders
0908002 Informal Interpretation
National Prize Information Group Corp. et al.
Prohibitions on Market Manipulation - 16 CFR Part 317
Prohibition of Energy Market Manipulation Rule
Thoratec Corporation, and HeartWare International, Inc., In the Matter of
The Commission authorized a preliminary injunction to block Thoratec Corporation’s proposed $282 million acquisition of rival medical device maker HeartWare International, Inc., charging that the transaction would substantially reduce competition in the U.S. market for left ventricular devices (LVADs), a life-sustaining treatment for patients with advanced heart failure. The FTC’s administrative complaint alleges that Thoratec seeks to maintain its monopoly by acquiring HeartWare, thus eliminating the only significant threat to Thoratec’s continued dominance of the LVAD market. In August of 2009, the parties announced they would not to proceed with the proposed acquisition, and the Commission dismissed the Administrative Complaint without filing an motion for preliminary injunction in federal court.