Penalties for unfair competition may include: Restitution to businesses injured by the action in the form of lost profits or other monetary damages, Punitive damages, designed to punish the defendant, Attorney's fees and costs, and.
Unfair Competition is a form of intellectual property protection relating to actions which cause economic injury to a business through deceptive or otherwise unfair acts. The purpose of unfair competition law is to protect consumers and competitors from deceptive or unethical conduct in commerce.
Generally, unfair competition consists of two elements: First, there is some sort of economic injury to a business, such as loss of sales or consumer goodwill. Second, this economic injury is the result of deceptive or otherwise wrongful business practice.
Unfair competition is conduct by a market participant which gains or seeks to gain an advantage over its rivals through misleading, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, coercive or unconscionable conduct in trade or commerce.
Unfair competition is conduct by a market participant which gains or seeks to gain an advantage over its rivals through misleading, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, coercive or unconscionable conduct in trade or commerce.
Intellectual property offences provide well-known examples of unfair competition – these include counterfeiting, trade secret misappropriation and design right infringement.
Unfair competition protects against fraudulent, deceptive or dishonest practices that are prohibited by statute or common law. This includes actions for infringement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, among others. Trade secret theft is unfortunately becoming more commonplace.
The county is bounded on the north by Kendall and Comal counties, on the east by Guadalupe and Wilson counties, on the south by Atascosa County, and on the west by Medina and Bandera counties. The county seat and largest city is San Antonio.
What is the Bexar County civil jurisdiction? Bexar County Clerk's jurisdiction is up to $200,000.
The County Courts-at-Law provide legal resolutions in both criminal misdemeanor and civil cases. There are fifteen statutory courts and one Auxiliary Jail court in the Bexar County system.