Los Angeles Unfair Competition Lawyers

What are Examples of Unfair Competition? 

Often times the most common type of unfair competition comes from trademark infringement and breach of contract cases. Litigation can be pursued when another business has been misleading consumers or a former employee has violated signed agreements.

There are various types of unfair competition, including some from the following list:

• False advertising
• Substituting one brand for another without authorization
• Stealing customers from a business by a former employee
• Theft of proprietary technology or trade secrets
• Violation of non-compete agreements
• Other forms of misrepresentation of products or services

In general, all of these different avenues make it so that competitors cannot play on equal terms. When certain conditions, whether favorable or not, affect some corporations but not others it can cause unfair situations. On some occasions, competitors will also seek to harm the abilities and practices of other businesses just so that they may succeed. The key here is that the success must be a direct result of some illegitimate or illegal action. It does not refer to chance occasions that allow for one business to succeed and not the other.

This is in direct contrast to fair competition which seeks to ensure that all businesses are operating with the same rules and equal competition. Competing in a fair manner helps to prevent certain actions of a business from hurting other businesses in the long run. It deters one group from always gaining while others lose out.