The legal library gives you easy access to the FTC’s case information and other official legal, policy, and guidance documents.
Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce
MSC.Software Corporation
MSC settled charges that its 1999 acquisitions of Universal Analytics, Inc. and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp. eliminated competition between the three firms in the development and application of engineering software. The administrative complaint issued October 2001, alleged that the two acquisitions would eliminate competition for advanced versions of Nastran, an engineering simulation software program used throughout the aerospace and automotive industries. The consent order required MSC to divest at least one clone copy of its current advance Nastran through royalty-free perpetual, non-exclusive licenses to one or two acquirers approved by the Commission.
20030673: 2000 Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund, L.P.; The Dwyer Group, Inc.
20030668: Warburg Pincus Private Equity VIII, L.P.; Wellman, Inc.
0306002 Informal Interpretation
0306003 Informal Interpretation
Haese v. H & R Block, Inc.,
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Fair Credit Reporting Act
0306001 Informal Interpretation
0305010 Informal Interpretation
Efficient Telesales Services Inc., also d/b/a U.S. Credit Services and U.S. Direct Benefits and Savings; and Leonora Khan
20030612: Probitas Pharma, S.A.; Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
FTC Staff Comment Before the Illinois Commerce Commission Concerning Asset Transfer Agreements With Affiliates, Ameren
FTC Comment Before the Department of Transportation Concerning Rules Governing Airline Computer Reservation Systems
Pfizer Inc. and Pharmacia Corporation
A final consent order permits Pfizer Inc.'s acquisition of Phamacia Corporation while requiring the divestiture of various products including extended release drugs used in the treatment of an overactive bladder; hormone replacement therapies; erectile dysfunction; canine arthritis; and motion sickness. Novartis AG, Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., Schering-Plough Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Insight Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and Cadbury Schweppes are named in the order as potential buyers of the various pharmaceuticals and products.
Institute of Store Planners, In the Matter of
Under the terms of a consent order, The Institute of Store Planners must remove from its Code of Ethics any provision that prohibits its members from providing their services for free and any provision that prohibits competition with other members for work on the basis of price. According to the complaint, these rules unreasonably restrained price and nonprice competition among the members, depriving consumers of the benefits of competition among store planners. Its members provide architectural store design and store and merchandise planning to retail stores.