incipiency doctrine
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From 344 U.S. 392 - Federal Trade Commission v. Motion Picture Advertising Service Co. · 1953Most cited · 399 citing opinions
the Federal Trade Commission Act was designed to supplement and bolster the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act... to stop in their incipiency acts and practices which, when full blown, would violate those Acts, as well as to condemn as 'unfair method of competition' existing violations of them