2014 Iowa Code
TITLE XIII - COMMERCE
SUBTITLE 5 - REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES
CHAPTER 548 - REGISTRATION AND PROTECTION OF MARKS
SECTION 548.114 - Remedies.


IA Code § 548.114 (2014) What's This?

548.114  Remedies.

The owner of a mark registered under this chapter may proceed by suit to enjoin the manufacture, use, display, or sale of any counterfeits or imitations of the mark and any court may grant injunctions to restrain such manufacture, use, display, or sale as the court deems just and reasonable, and may require the defendants to pay to such owner all profits derived from or all damages suffered by reason of such wrongful manufacture, use, display, or sale.  The court may also order that any counterfeits or imitations in the possession or under the control of a defendant be delivered to an officer of the court, or to the complainant, to be destroyed.  The court, in its discretion, may enter judgment for an amount not to exceed three times such profits and damages and reasonable attorney fees of the prevailing party in cases where the court finds the other party committed such wrongful acts with knowledge or in bad faith or otherwise as according to the circumstances of the case.

The enumeration of any right or remedy in this section shall not affect a registrant’s right to prosecute under any penal law of this state.

[C97, §5050, 5051; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9871 – 9873, 9875; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §548.7 – 548.9, 548.11; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §548.11]

94 Acts, ch 1090, §14 C95, §548.114

Referred to in §548.112

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