Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to consent agreements with two marketers of ozone generators for use in homes and offices, settling charges that the marketers made...

A federal district court judge has prohibited Debra Mink from ever offering, or assisting others to offer, employment services again. Mink was charged by the Federal Trade Commission in May with...

S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and modify a 1993 order by terminating a provision that requires the company to obtain the FTC's approval for 10 years...

Blenheim Expositions, Inc., a Winter Park, Florida-based company that produces a variety of franchise trade shows and expositions, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it...

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...

The Federal Trade Commission has granted the request of the Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association (FEDA) to set aside an old order against it. The FTC did so in keeping with its "sunsetting"...

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...

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 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...