Federal Trade Commission staff have advised the Eastern Ohio Physicians Organization, Inc. (EOPO), a multi-speciality physician organization to operate in northeastern Ohio and northwestern...

Rite Aid Corporation has entered into an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission under which it can acquire several Brooks retail pharmacies in Maine from Maxi Drug, Inc., pending completion of...

Starting October 2, American consumers denied health, life or disability insurance will have the right to know when confidential information about them was disclosed to insurers by the nation's...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with The Scotts Company, settling charges that its acquisition of Sternþs Miracle-Gro Products, Inc. would substantially...

Pendleton Woolen Mills, Inc. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to modify a 1979 settlement order to allow the company to exert unilateral control over how its products are marketed and sold...

Thrifty PayLess, Inc. (formerly TCH Corporation) and Green Equity Investors, L.P. have requested Federal Trade Commission approval to divest the pharmacy business of the Bi-Mart store in Florence...