2021 Georgia Code
Title 10 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices
Article 16 - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names
Part 1 - Registration and Use of Trademarks and Service Marks
§ 10-1-453. Unauthorized and Deceitful Use of Name or Seal a Misdemeanor
Any firm, person, corporation, or association who shall use the name or seal of any other person, firm, corporation, or association, in and about the sale of goods or otherwise, not being authorized to use the same, knowing that such use is unauthorized, with intent to deceive the public in the sale of goods, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ga. L. 1893, p. 134, § 6; Ga. L. 1895, p. 63, § 2; Penal Code 1895, § 255; Ga. L. 1896, p. 108, § 4; Penal Code 1910, § 257; Code 1933, § 106-9904.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Trademarks and Tradenames, § 75 et seq.
C.J.S.- 87 C.J.S. Trademarks, Trade-Names, and Unfair Competition, § 153.
ALR.
- Right to protection in use of initials as a trademark or trade name, or upon the ground of unfair competition, 11 A.L.R. 1286.
Right of one to protection of trade name which he does not use, 48 A.L.R. 1257.
Validity and effect of contract, unconnected with transfer of any business or professional interest, purporting to grant exclusive right to use one's name or likeness for advertising purposes, 101 A.L.R. 492.
Damages recoverable for wrongful registration of trademark, 26 A.L.R.2d 1184.
Right to protection of corporate name, as between domestic corporation and foreign corporation not qualified to do business in state, 26 A.L.R.3d 994.
Incorporation of company under particular name as creating exclusive right to such name, 68 A.L.R.3d 1168.
Use of "family name" by corporation as unfair competition, 72 A.L.R.3d 8.
Right to publicize or commercially exploit deceased person's name or likeness as inheritable, 10 A.L.R.4th 1193.
