Unfair competition is damaging to any business. Whether your company is an established competitor in its market or a new entry into a local, national or international marketplace, unfair acts from your competitors cannot be tolerated.
Unfair Competition Examples
Examples of unfair competition include:
- Predatory Pricing: Your competitors may deliberately under-price items to undermine your sales, or they may ‘bait and switch’ by offering customers an introductory price on goods or services in order to ‘steal’ the sale, then later inflate the price to make a profit.
- Unfair Pressure: Your competitors may bring pressure to bear on your trade associates to not do business with you, deny you the goods and services you require for business operations or inflate your base costs.
- False Advertising: Your competitors may falsely advertise their goods or services to discredit yours or lure in more customers than they would normally attract with honest advertising.
- Misrepresentation: Your competitors may deliberately misrepresent their products as yours or may misrepresent themselves as a better supplier of the same goods and services you offer
- Illegal Practices and Procedures: Your competitors may knowingly break the law when competing for customers, either by disregarding laws currently on the books, by using unfair sales tactics or knowingly violate state and federal regulations when bidding on contracts.
Protect Your Company against Unfair Competition
Whatever the cause of unfair competition, your company has the right to sue for damages. Robert G. Klein is a Los Angeles unfair competition attorney who can assess your company’s losses and file suit for recompense. He can identify your competitors’ specific misdeeds, and bring them to light in a court of law.
There is no reason to suffer the loss of company revenue due to the unfair actions of a competitor which chooses not to ‘play by the rules’. If you company or corporation has incurred significant damage due to unfair competition, contact a Los Angeles unfair competition lawyer at KLEIN to discuss your case. |
