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Oklahoma
Oklahoma Deceptive Trade Practices Act
In force.
An unfair competition rule binding public and private bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- Yes
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not pass off your goods or services as another's, or make a false representation about the source, sponsorship, approval, affiliation, characteristics, or quantity of goods or services, in the course of business.
- A person damaged or likely to be damaged by a violation may sue for an injunction and, where damages are proved, actual damages.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Private plaintiffs and trade associations, by an action for an injunction and actual damages under 78 O.S. 54; the Attorney General or a district attorney may sue only over the directory-listing practices in paragraphs 13 and 14 of section 53(A).
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a scraper that republishes collected content "pass off goods or services as those of another" within 78 O.S. section 53(A)(1) where it does not identify the source?
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- in the course of business, vocation, or occupation
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 51 to 55 define terms, list the deceptive trade practices (passing off, false representations, disparagement, misleading advertising and price claims, misleading directory listings), give a private injunction action with Attorney General relief for the directory-listing practices, and set exceptions. None requires a person to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. The sections have no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Oklahoma Deceptive Trade Practices Act lists specific deceptive practices in the course of business, vocation, or occupation, including passing off goods or services as another's and making false representations of source, sponsorship, approval, or affiliation, and gives any person damaged or likely to be damaged by a deceptive trade practice a private right of action for an injunction and, where damages are proved, actual damages. No day on which the Act came into force has been located.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app crawls the web.
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