December 03, 2013
Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, kept the audience in suspense till the final reel: In her closing remarks at a recent day-long workshop on the Internet of Things, she joked about making the large roomful of attentive participants wait till the end of her comments before saying whether the agency was poised to issue regulations in this rapidly-evolving area.
December 03, 2013
Bipartisan bills to curb litigation brought by so-called patent trolls continue to gain momentum despite the gridlock that has made Capitol Hill a graveyard for almost all proposed legislation.
December 03, 2013
EDITOR’S NOTE: A trial is underway in Boise, Idaho that could determine the future configuration of the health-care industry in the United States and mark the beginning of the end of the iconic...
December 03, 2013
In November of last year, then-FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch parted company with his fellow commissioners and opposed Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.’s $2.3 billion acquisition of Dollar Thrifty...
December 03, 2013
The FTC’s investigation of an organization of music teachers has struck a sour note.
December 03, 2013
Sen. John D. (Jay) Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) is looking for some scalps.
December 03, 2013
In the e-books case, book publishers tried to organize a united front against Amazon and ended up as the defendants to a federal antitrust complaint. Now that the trial phase of the case is over,...
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