A bill to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to provide that exclusive territorial arrangements used in the distribution or sale of a trademarked soft drink product or a trademarked private label food product shall not be deemed unlawful per se.

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States that nothing contained in the Federal Trade Commission Act or in any of the antitrust Acts shall render unlawful on a per se basis the inclusion and enforcement of any trademark licensing agreement, pursuant to which the licensee engages in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of a trademarked soft drink product, or the distribution or sale of a trademarked private label food product, or provisions granting the licensee the sole and exclusive right to manufacture, distribute and sell such product in a defined geographic area or limiting the licensee, directly or indirectly, to the manufacture, distribution, and sale of such product only for ultimate resale to consumers within a defined geographic area. Defines "trademarked private label food product" for purposes of this Act.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 2 August 1976

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