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Passing off is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trade mark rights. The tort of passing off protects the goodwill of a trader from misrepresentation.
The law of passing off prevents one trader from misrepresenting goods or services as being the goods and services of another, and also prevents a trader from holding out his or her goods or services as having some association or connection with another when this is not true.
Passingoff is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trade mark rights. The tort of passingoff protects the goodwill of a trader...
an instance of passing out, also called fainting or losing consciousness Passingoff, in law, presenting one product as another Passing, a type of metallic...
In Canada, passingoff is both a common law tort and a statutory cause of action under the Canadian Trade-marks Act referring to the deceptive representation...
infringe on either the trademark, patent or copyright of the brand owner by passingoff its goods as made by the brand owner. Counterfeit products made up 5...
unregistered trademarks may be protected by a common law passingoff tort which prevents traders from passingoff their goods or services as that of another. In...
which attaches to unregistered trademarks through the tort of passingoff. Passingoff may provide a remedy in a scenario where a business has been trading...
pinot noir, rosé and syrah. Sieur d'Arques were prosecuted in 2010 for passingoff wines blended from other grape varieties as pinot noir in order to charge...
legal cases, especially in the UK, involving trademark infringement and passingoff. Where one party alleges that another (the defendant) has infringed their...
law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passingoff. United States jurisprudence has substantially extended this right. A...
passing shot. Because the opponent has a shorter reaction time when they are at the net as compared to the baseline, a fast return can catch them off-guard...
In computer science, message passing is a technique for invoking behavior (i.e., running a program) on a computer. The invoking program sends a message...
§ 1125(a). Trade dress can be protected as getup under the law of passingoff in the UK. Passingoff is a common law remedy for protecting an unregistered trade...
allegations from easyGroup over its use of the easy name, accusing Easyart of "passingoff" on easyGroup's good name. Before commencing legal action easyGroup's...
under the Act or can alternately be protected by a common law action in passingoff. A trademark is only protected to the extent that it is used by a person...
Passing Strange is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young African American's journey of self-discovery as an artist, while combining strong existentialist...
in copyright law as adjudicated by courts, they still constitute the passing-off of another's work as one's own, and thus plagiarism. Not all cultures...
under s. 7(b) of the Act, as well as under the common law doctrine of passingoff. Ritvik denied any breach under the Act or at common law and counterclaimed...
period and the score 70–64, Lakers, Thomas rolled his right ankle while passingoff to Joe Dumars for a basket. Thomas tried to run upcourt, but collapsed...
[1991] RPC 251, in which the Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma sued for passingoff their unregistered collective mark; Association of Certified Public Accountants...
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