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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14270
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14270
This chapter shall not affect any suit, proceeding, or appeal pending on January 1, 2008.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14272
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14272
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 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1051 et seq.), as amended. To that end, the c
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 143
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 143
(a) No person engaged in any business or profession for which a license is required under this code governing the department or any board, bureau, commission, committee, or program within the department, may bring or maintain any action, or recover in law or equity in any action,
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 143.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 143.5
(a) No licensee who is regulated by a board, bureau, or program within the Department of Consumer Affairs, nor an entity or person acting as an authorized agent of a licensee, shall include or permit to be included a provision in an agreement to settle a civil dispute, whether th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, an agency designated in subdivision (b) shall require an applicant to furnish to the agency a full set of fingerprints for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks. Any agency designated in subdivision (b) may obtain and receive, at
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144.5
Notwithstanding any other law, a board described in Section 144 may request, and is authorized to receive, from a local or state agency certified records of all arrests and convictions, certified records regarding probation, and any and all other related documentation needed to c
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144.6
(a) For purposes of Section 668.14 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the required minimum number of hours, or the equivalent, established in this state for education programs that qualify persons for any license issued by a board within the department shall be equal
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 144.7
(a) For purposes of any code or statute, a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education as of January 1, 2025, shall retain that recognition until July 1, 2029, provided that the accrediting agency continues to operate in substan
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14401
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14401
Any trade name may be transferred in the same manner as personal property in connection with the good will of the business in which it is used or the part thereof to which it is appurtenant, and the owner is entitled to the same protection by suits at law or in equity.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14402
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14402
Any court of competent jurisdiction may restrain, by injunction, any use of trade names in violation of the rights defined in this chapter.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14403
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14403
Every person who has in his possession, or who uses any cask, bottle, vessel, case, cover, label, brand, or other thing bearing, or having in any way connected with it, the trade name of another, for the purpose of disposing of any article other than that which such cask, bottle,
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14404
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14404
Every person who wilfully defaces, obliterates, or otherwise removes, destroys, or conceals the trade name of another, printed, branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed, or otherwise attached to, or produced upon any cask, keg, bottle, vessel, siphon, can, case, or ot
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14405
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14405
Every person who wilfully sells, or traffics in any cask, keg, bottle, vessel, siphon, can, case or other package bearing the trade name of another, printed, branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, or otherwise attached or produced thereon, or refills any such cask, keg, bottl
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14411
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14411
The filing of any fictitious business name statement by a person required to file such statement pursuant to Section 17910 shall establish a rebuttable presumption that the registrant has the exclusive right to use as a trade name the fictitious business name, as well as any conf
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14412
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14412
The rebuttable presumption created by Section 14411 shall be applicable until the fictitious business name statement is abandoned pursuant to Section 17922, or otherwise expires pursuant to Section 17920, and no new fictitious business name statement has been filed by the registr
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14413
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14413
For purposes of Section 14411 a fictitious business name statement filed after January 1, 1971, and deemed filed on July 1, 1971, under Section 8 of Chapter 618 of the 1970 Statutes shall be considered filed at the time a certificate was first filed under Chapter 2 (commencing wi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14414
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14414
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require or prohibit the filing in any county of any fictitious business name statement if such filing is not required or prohibited by Section 17910.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14415
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14415
The filing of articles of incorporation pursuant to Section 200 of the Corporations Code, in the case of a domestic corporation, or the obtaining of a certificate of qualification pursuant to Sections 2105 and 2106 of the Corporations Code, in the case of a foreign corporation, s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14416
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14416
If, as to the same or a confusingly similar trade name, in a county, there are both a corporation entitled to the rebuttable presumption created by Section 14415 and a registrant entitled to the benefit of the presumption created by Section 14411, whichever has filed the fictitio
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14417
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14417
The filing of articles of incorporation pursuant to Section 200 of the Corporations Code shall not of itself authorize the use in this state of a corporate name in violation of the rights of another under the federal Trademark Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1051 et seq.), the Trademark Act
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14418
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14418
The filing of any fictitious business name statement pursuant to Section 17910 does not, of itself, authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another as established under this chapter, the federal law relating to trademarks (15 U.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14425
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14425
As used in this article: (a) “Containers,” “equipment” and “supplies” means containers, equipment or supplies bearing a brand. (b) “Brand” means any mark, name or device filed as a brand under this article. (c) “Registrant” means a person who files a brand under this article.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14426
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14426
Any corporation or association whose members might register a brand under this article, may itself register a brand under this article. As used in this article, “member of a registrant” means a member who would be entitled to register the same brand under this article.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14427
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14427
Any person, who is engaged in the manufacture, packing, canning, bottling, or selling of any substance in containers with his or her name, or other mark or device impressed or produced thereon, or whose equipment or supplies, owned by and used in his or her business, bears a name
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14429
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 14429
There shall be included as a part of each brand the words, “Registered in California,” or the abbreviation, “Reg. Cal.”