Dictograph Products, Inc

Volume 103 · 103 F.T.C. 30

Citation: 103 F.T.C. 30
Docket: 5655
Decision: 1984-01-17
Document type: set aside order
Case type: antitrust
Statutes: FTC Act (section 5)
Industry: hearing aids
Outcome: set aside
Relief: other
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Dictograph Products, Inc, 103 F.T.C. 30 (1984). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v103-0009

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IN THE MATTER OF DICTOGRAPH PRODUCTS, INC.

ORDER TO SET ASIDE IN REGARD TO ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 5655. Order, Sept. 1953-order 1b Set Aside, Jan. 17, 1984 The Federal Trade Commission has set aside the Sept. 24, 1953 order issued against DictographProducts, Inc. (50 F. C. 281), in light of its actions in Bellone Electronics Corp. Dkt. 8928 r100 F. C. 68 (1982)) and Dahlberg Electronics Corp. Dkt. 8229 l101 F. C. 703 (1983)), which set aside prohibitions on the companies' use of exclusive dealing arrangements.

ORDER TO SET ASIDE ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST On September 24, 1953, the Federal Trade Commission issued an order against Dictograph Products, Inc. in Docket No. 5655 prohibiting Dictograph, in the sale of its own brand name hearing aids, from imposing exclusive dealing arrangements upon its dealers. (50 F. 281) Two ofDictograph's larger competitors are now permitted by recent Commission actions to engage in the same exclusive dealing practices contained in the order against Dictograph. On July 26, 1982, the Commission dismissed the complaint in Beltone Electronics Corp. Docket No. 8928 (100 F. C. 68), challenging, among other things, the same practices prohibited by the order against Dictograph. On April , 1983, the Commission, in Dahlberg Electronics, Inc. Docket No. 8929 (101 F. C. 703), set aside prohibitions on Dahlberg s use of exclusive dealing arrangements, which were similar to those contained in the order against Dictograph.

On December 7 1983, the Commission, pursuant to Section 3. 72(b) of the Commission s Rules of Practice, 16 C. R. 3.72(b), issued an order to show cause why the proceeding herein should not be reopened to set aside the final cease and desist order in Docket No. 5655 prohibiting Respondent' s use of exclusive dealing arrangements. Respondent was provided an opportunity to object to the proposed set aside ofthe order against it, and having failed to do so, is now deemed to have consented to such action. In view ofthe Commission s actions in Beltone and Dahlberg, the Commission believes that this modification is in the public interest.

Accordingly, It is hereby ordered That this matter be, and it hereby is, reopened

Complaint 103 F.

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