unfair competition
unfair, untrue, or misleading advertising likely to lead the public to believe that certain goods are associated with another manufacturer.
UNFAIR COMPETITION: A wide assortment of business practices that are deceptive and dishonest, and usually hamper competition.
It covers patents, industrial designs, service marks, trade names, indications of source, and unfair competition. The U.S. ratified this treaty in May of 1887. The treaty provides two fundamental rights: ...
Frederic Bastiat, a 19th-century French satirist, once observed that the sun offered unfair competition to candle makers. If windows could be boarded up during the day, he argued, more jobs could be created making candles.
Selling goods below cost (unfair competition)
Variations in geographical prices reflecting diverging levels of geographical competition.
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See: Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; Restraint of Trade; Unfair Competition.
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Even where no trademark right is registered, any sign, emblem, or get-up identified with one trader may not be used by another with a view to diverting custom. This is achieved by rules relating to unfair competition, or passing-off, ...
Anyone who advised us to 'protect' ourselves from the 'unfair competition' of low-paid laundry workers by doing our own wash would be thought looney.
The duration of this " prohibition of unfair competition," as the law was called, was limited to 2 years, an important matter for minors and for assistants receiving low salaries.
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