trade in goods or provision of services, including - (a) tie-in arrangement; (b) exclusive [dealing] agreement; (c) exclusive distribution agreement; (d) refusal to deal ... consumer.] Explanation. - For the purposes of this sub-section,- [(a) "tie-in arrangement" includes any agreement requiring a purchaser of goods or services
present case, the Commission has carefully reviewed
the tie-arrangement in the context of the dual roles of the service provider. On
one hand ... internet services and on the other are distributors of iPhone. A tie-
arrangement, therefore, must be assessed with respect to foreclosure in the
handset market
Report did not find any
contravention in the alleged tying arrangements pertaining to
premium/low demand cars with non-premium/high demand cars. As
such ... obligation/ refusal to deal and tie-in
for car insurance, as India, and for RPM and tie-in arrangements for
CNG kits and lubricants
clear violation of section 3(1) of the
Act.
(c) Tie-in Arrangement
DTH service providers are forcing the consumers to get
into a tie ... violation of section 3(4) of the Act under which a
tie-in arrangement would prime facie be considered violative
of section
called the tying product". The Commission
further set out the following ingredients to be satisfied for a tie-in arrangement: (i)
presence ... respect to the tying
product to appreciably restrain free competition in the market for the tied product, and
(iv) the tying arrangement must affect
Hyundai
Brand of Cars in Delhi and NCR";
(iii) Tie-in arrangements:
(a) In determining whether the OP
imposes a tie-in arrangement with ... determining whether the OP
imposes a tie- in arrangement for
lubricants, the DG defined the relevant
market as "Sale of Lubricants for
Hyundai Brand
with hardware tied-in. Also the hardware
is manipulated to deny access to other DTH operators. To further enforce
the tie in arrangement, DTH operators ... operators have been
forcing the consumers to get into a tie-in arrangement in order to have a
subscription. An argument raised was that
provisions of Section 3(4)(a) of the Act which
prohibits tie-in arrangements. It is also alleged that by denying the distributors ... products along with the high demand products
which is tantamount to tie-in arrangements, compelling the distributors to exclusively
deal with its products which amounts
months course after admission, that the petitioner had already made tie up arrangement with leading hospitals at Salem and that the first respondent University ... date some of the abovementioned Colleges still continue with the tie up arrangement only inspite of more than 5 or 6 years have elapsed after
Informant has alleged that OPs engaged themselves in tie-in arrangement by
coercing the Informant to order the SCV or passenger/ utility vehicles according ... sales made by the dealer in a particular month.
Further, tie-in arrangement of Discount Special Insurance Scheme (DSIS) was only on
policies issued
