FTC fights Ottobock merger defence

Pallavi Guniganti

05 March 2018

Credit: iStock / ottoblotto

Federal Trade Commission lawyers want to strike out an affirmative defence lodged by Ottobock following an FTC challenge to its tie-up with Freedom Innovations, although the prosthetics company says the matter should be decided by a judge.

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