FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT

Bills and resolutions

FTC: make hospital organizations and cooperative hospital service organizations subject to antitrust enforcement relative to unfair methods of competition (see H.R. 2890), H2047 [26AP]

——— prohibit anticompetitive use of patents, known as product hopping, by drug product manufacturers (see S. 150), S147 [30JA]

——— provide authority to seek equitable remedies for unfair or deceptive trade practices (see S. 1076), S1088 [30MR]

Reports filed

Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 150), S567 [1MR]