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title: "Making it Stop: A Practical Guide to Challenging Your Competitor’s Advertising Claims"
date: 2008-06-01T00:00:00-04:00
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# Making it Stop: A Practical Guide to Challenging Your Competitor’s Advertising Claims

  June 2008

Advertising Compliance Service

 

 

 

 

 

 

This article provides guidance in evaluating which options are best suited to serve client-needs when challenging a competitor’s advertising claims. The authors discuss initiating a proceeding before the National Advertising Division (NAD), alerting state and federal regulators and litigating under the Lanham Act.

 

 

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