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ARTICLE · 01 JUNE 2021

The FTC Staff Closing Letter: What, Why, Where

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In a post this week, the FTC's Business Center Blog addressed the whys, wheres and wherefores of FTC Staff Closing Letters. What triggered the BCP post? Hard to say.

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In a post this week, the FTC's Business Center Blog addressed the whys, wheres and wherefores of FTC Staff Closing Letters.  What triggered the BCP post?  Hard to say.  But the post provides a concise summary of what they are ("exactly what they say they are") and their narrow purpose: they announce the closure of an investigation but the closure is not binding on the Commission and the FTC can take further action in a particular matter, as necessary.  (A hint that something previously closed is about to be re-opened?  We shall see.)

As an ad lawyer, I regularly take a look at them (I even have an auto-reminder set in my calendar) to get a feel for what's on the FTC staff's mind, what they're looking at, how they're approaching issues and whether there's a particularly juicy tidbit to inform my client counseling.  Although many of the Staff Closing Letters over the last couple of years have concerned Made in US claims, such claims are not the only ones addressed in

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