The employee desires to be employed by the company in a capacity in which he/she may receive, contribute, or develop confidential and proprietary information. Such information is important to the future of the company and the company expects the employee to keep secret such proprietary and confidential information and not to compete with the company during his/her employment and for a reasonable period after employment.
Types Of Unfair Competition In Maricopa
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The FTC's Shifting Policy Regarding “Unfair Methods of Competition” In 1914, Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act. Section 5 of the FTC Act makes "unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce" unlawful.
These include: Performance enhancing drugs: When athletes turn to performance enhancing drugs such as steroids or human growth hormones, they gain an unfair advantage over others.
Two common examples of unfair competition are trademark infringement and misappropriation. The right to publicity is often invoked in misappropriation issues. Other practices that fall into the area of unfair competition include: False advertising.
The ACFA is a law that contains broad regulations on the conduct that a business can or cannot engage in. The law broadly prohibits businesses from using deceptive or unfair practices, fraud, misrepresentation, and omission of material fact during the sale or advertisement of goods and services.
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: This term is sometimes used specifically to refer to torts that confuse consumers about the source of a product, known as deceptive trade practices. Unfair trade practices: This category includes all other forms of unfair competition not directly related to consumer confusion.
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.
The essential elements of an action for unfair competition are: (1) confusing similarity in the general appearance of the goods, and (2) intent to deceive the public and defraud a competitor.
The plaintiff files a document (complaint) with the clerk of the court stating the reasons why the plaintiff is suing the defendant, and what action the plaintiff wants the court to take. A copy of the complaint and a summons are delivered to (served on) the defendant.
All civil cases filed with the Clerk of the Court in which the Court finds or the parties agree that the amount in controversy does not exceed $50,000 shall be subject to the provisions of A.R.S. § 12-133 and Rules 72 to 77 of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure governing compulsory arbitration.