{"id":11309,"date":"2017-12-22T06:11:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11309"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:20:53","slug":"false-association-claim-based-on-the-wrongful-use-of-a-distinctive-name-mark-trade-dress-or-other-device-to-misrepresent-sponsorship-origin-of-goods-or-services-or-affiliation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11309","title":{"rendered":"False-Association Claim – based on the wrongful use of a distinctive name, mark, trade dress, or other device to misrepresent sponsorship, origin of goods or services, or affiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

false-association claim<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(1992)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/strong>Intellectual property. <\/em>A claim based on the wrongful use of a distinctive name, mark, trade dress, or other device to misrepresent sponsorship, origin of goods or services, or affiliation.\u00a0 *\u00a0 The power to assert a false-association claim is not limited to trademark registrants.\u00a0 Any person who claims an injury caused by deceptive use of a trademark or its equivalent may have standing to bring suit.\u00a0<\/strong> See USCA \u00a7 1125(a)(1)(A)<\/strong><\/a>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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