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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS
Chapter 495
REGISTRATION AND PROTECTION OF TRADEMARKS
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F.S. 495.181
495.181 Construction of chapter.The intent of this chapter is to provide a system of state trademark registration and protection substantially consistent with the federal system of trademark registration and protection under the Trademark Act of 1946, as amended. To that end, the construction given the federal act should be examined as persuasive authority for interpreting and construing this chapter.
History.s. 7, ch. 90-222; s. 20, ch. 2006-191.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 495.181
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NOVESHEN, v. BRIDGEWATER ASSOCIATES, LP,, 47 F. Supp. 3d 1367 (S.D. Fla. 2014)

. . . . § 495.181 (West) (“The intent of this chapter is to provide a system of state trademark registration . . .

ANDERSON, v. UPPER KEYS BUSINESS GROUP, INC., 61 So. 3d 1162 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

. . . May 18, 2006); see also § 495.181, Fla. . . .

TORTOISE ISLAND HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v. TORTOISE ISLAND REALTY, INC., 790 So. 2d 525 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

. . . relied on federal decisions interpreting comparable provisions of the Lanham Act, “because section 495.181 . . .

GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH- DAY ADVENTISTS v. PEREZ, d b a SDA a a, 97 F. Supp. 2d 1154 (S.D. Fla. 2000)

. . . . § 495.181, F.S. requires that “... in construing (the Florida statute) due consideration and great . . .

PROMOTORA DE SERVICIOS, S. A. f k a v. LOS RANCHOS RESTAURANT, INC., 755 So. 2d 173 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

. . . See § 495.181, Fla. Stat. . . .

STERN, v. STATE, 739 So. 2d 1203 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

. . . applicable in an action under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C., ss. 1051 et. seq., or to an action under s. 495.181 . . .

POPULAR BANK OF FLORIDA, a v. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, N. A., 9 F. Supp. 2d 1347 (S.D. Fla. 1998)

. . . First Southern Bank based on federal cases because section 495.181, Florida Statutes, is patterned on . . .

GREAT SOUTHERN BANK, v. FIRST SOUTHERN BANK,, 625 So. 2d 463 (Fla. 1993)

. . . cases decided under comparable provisions of the federal Lanham Act [hereinafter Act], because section 495.181 . . . Section 495.181, Florida Statutes (1991), provides: "It is the intent of the Legislature that, in construing . . . Section 495.181 became effective on October 1, 1990, after the commencement of the alleged infringement . . .