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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 61 — Soft Drink Interbrand Competition

§ 3502. Price fixing agreements, horizontal restraints of trade, or group boycotts

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to legalize the enforcement of provisions described in section 3501 of this title in trademark licensing contracts or agreements described in that section by means of price fixing agreements, horizontal restraints of trade, or group boycotts, if such agreements, restraints, or boycotts would otherwise be unlawful.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act

    Pub. L. 96–308 § 3 · 94 Stat. 939

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 3502

    (Pub. L. 96–308, § 3, July 9, 1980, 94 Stat. 939.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–308, § 3, July 9, 1980, 94 Stat. 939.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to legalize the 15 USC 3502. enforcement of provisions described in section 2 of this Act in trademark licensing contracts or agreements described in that section by means of price fixing agreements, horizontal restraints of trade, or group boycotts, if such agreements, restraints, or boycotts would otherwise be unlawful.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–308, § 3, , 94 Stat. 939.)

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