Can False Advertising Give Rise to Antitrust Liability? (2)

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Christopher Cole, Dec 31, 2014

In late 2013, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, which had been considering whether Becton-Dickinson should be held liable for attempted monopolization of the market for retractable safety syringes, concluded that Becton had engaged in exclusionary conduct against Retractable Technologies by means of deceptive advertising and awarded the plaintiff over $113 million in “