Beltone Hearing Aid Company

Volume 103 · 103 F.T.C. 77

Citation: 103 F.T.C. 77
Docket: 5825
Decision: 1984-02-10
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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Beltone Hearing Aid Company, 103 F.T.C. 77 (1984). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v103-0014

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Order status: dismissed_no_order. Sunset may be extended by the latest qualifying federal-court complaint alleging an order violation; complaints, dismissal/appeal outcomes, and respondent-specific extensions are not fully tracked.

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IN THE MATTER OF BELTONE HEARING AID COMPANY ORDER TO SET ASIDE IN REGARD TO ALLGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT AND SEC. 3 OF THE CLAYTON ACT Docket 5825. Final Order, Feb. 1956-order To Set Aside, Feb. 10, 1984 The Final Cease and Desist Order issued against Beltone Hearing Aid Company in Docket 5825 (52 F. C. 830 (1956)), has been set aside in light of the Commission dismissal of the complaint in BeltoneElectronics Corp. (100 F. C. 68 (1982)), which challenged the use of the same exclusive dealing arrangements prohibited by the order in Docket 5825.

ORDER TO SET ASIDE ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST On February 16, 1956, the Federal Trade Commission issued an order against Beltone Hearing Aid Company (currently known as Beltone Electronics Corporation) in Docket No. 5825 prohibiting Beltone, in the sale of its own brand name hearing aids, from imposing exclusive dealing arrangements upon its dealers. (52 F. C. 830) However, on July 16, 1982, the Commission dismissed the complaint in Beltone Electronics Corp. Docket No. 8929 challenging, among other things, Beltone s use of the same exclusive dealing arrangements prohibited by the order in Docket No. 5825. (100 F. 68) 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 to Beltone 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. 5825, prohibiting Respondent's use of exclusive dealing arrangements. Respondent was provided an opportunity to object to the proposed set aside of the order against it, and having failed to do so is now deemed to have consented to such action, In view of the Commission decision in Beltone the Commission believes that this set aside is in the public interest.

Accordingly, It is hereby ordered That this matter be, and it hereby is, reopened and that the order herein shall be set aside as of the effective date of this order.

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