Essays on False Advertising

Typically, when information is written by scholars, the information is transferred to the end users of the information. The end users, in this case, are the people seeking to find solutions to their research problems from the sources while the scholars are the authors of the sources. It is, therefore, prudent for scholars to take a lot of caution in their writing. They need to keep it simple and have detailed explanations with numerous examples to enable the readers or the end users of their work to have a better understanding of their work. Moreover, having a better understanding ...

Advertising Regulations and Restrictions

In this modern era, media has gained much importance and has become a necessity just like clothes and food. In this field, Advertising is the major focal point. The purpose of advertising to deliver information regarding products to people and them well aware of the features of products that helps them to make their buying decisions. But, unfortunately nowadays, advertising is not done properly and ethically. The companies are doing deceptive advertisements of products in order to attract people. They are advertising wrong features and price of product. In this regard, there are rules and regulations; FTC’s established standards, ...

And their Effects on Consumers

And their Effects on Consumers This paper takes on the advertising of foods by fast food groups in comparison to its real counterpart. This is a problem not only faced by a single state in the country, but probably throughout the globe. Though highly neglected or disregarded by many customers who are mostly satisfied, or silently dissatisfied, with how their food orders turn up to their tables even when it doesn’t look the way it should as seen on the advertisements, false advertising is taken seriously by the law. Silent protest or a simple grunt at the food served on ...

Lawsuits are common among competitor companies for false advertising of their advertisements on air. This is a violation of the Lanham Act that was enacted by Congress in 1946. This Act prohibits companies from carrying out activities such as false advertising, trademark infringement, and dilution of their products. This paper addresses two questions concerning the court case between Pharmacia, the complainant, and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, the defendant, on a product meant to help people quit smoking.

Question 1: On What Basis Does the Court Conclude That GSKCH likely Violated the Lanham Act?

Pharmacia is a company that makes Nicotrol, which is an inhaler that helps smokers to stop feeling the urge of smoking again. This company goes to ...

Starting from late November 2012, during the holiday season, over 500 Wal-Mart workers from various locations organized a series of strikes. The strikes were a part of an on-going Wal-Mart employees’ campaign for better working conditions and freedom to express their concerns publicly. Wal-Mart workers claim that the biggest US employer retaliates for taking part in strikes or demanding better schedules, medical benefits and wages. The retail giant has several methods in its disposal: moving “problematic” employees to different departments, cutting their wages and shuffling working hours. As Alice Hines and Kathleen Miles reported on November 23, 2012, in the Huffington ...

Introduction

The research seeks to identify ethical issues relating to advertising, marketing, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety. The paper takes a position against drug companies using Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing. The paper also determines who currently regulates the compounding pharmacies regulatory scheme and what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should have done and if they should be given more say and power over compounding pharmacies. Again, the paper determines whether the use of Colberian intellectual property by PharmaCARE’s would be ethical in accordance with Deontology or not, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. The paper analyzes how PharmaCARE protects itself ...

Fallacies always stem from many societal issues, where one does not consider the reality on the ground or the factors leading to certain happenings. They may lead to one having misleading interpretations of a given instance, hence coming up with unworthy conclusions. Behavioral mechanisms and also cognitive notions are always responsible for the different stances of fallacies that emerge in the society.

Beauty

The natural attractiveness of one’s beauty always contributes positively to their hiring in the different companies. That is why the more attractive people without the best qualifications and those who are less attractive but with the best ...

The Facts of the Case

The ethical issue in this case is predatory pricing, and the parties involved include both local and international retailers. Predatory pricing takes place in showrooms and online advertising media where retailers lower the prices of their products in order to attract and retain customers. This pricing occurs during advertisements as the retailers with monopolistic powers price their products at lowly as a strategy of driving the competitors out of the market. Predatory pricing creates barriers to entry for potential and new competitors since they cannot survive under extremely low prices without incurring losses. Most countries consider predatory pricing anti-competitive and ...

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Introduction Advertisements are everywhere. We see them through billboards, print ads, television, radio, and the Internet. They entice us with almost anything and everything. They also claim to offer the best brands and products or services at the most cost effective prices. However, these offers are sometimes unintentional and are only made for promotions purposes. In business law, advertisements do not constitute an offer and hence, it is not a binding contract. Hence, any attraction to a certain ads which offer a product or package in exchange for a purchase or patronage does not literally mean there is a binding contract between the ...

Introduction

Chick-fil-A, Inc. was an organization that was organized in the early 1960s and is considered to be the second biggest fast food chicken eatery in the entire United States. Chick-fil-A stores are positioned in 39 states and that includes the District of Columbia. Research shows that the sales for 2011 had actually gone way past the $4.1 billion mark. Research also displays that Chick-fil-A maintains a crowd of trademarks, as well as trademarks for “Chick-fil-A” and not to mention for the motto “Eat more chicken” nevertheless, Chick-fil-A has some disputes over the years such as the case of Robert Muller-Moore ...

Global businesses are faced with ethical decisions they have to make every day. They have to decide the ethical principles the company will operate by in the area of human resources, accounting, marketing and advertising, manufacturing and production. There are steps that the management can take to ensure that the company operates well. A code of ethics should be introduced and the staff to be trained to understand the code and how they shall apply it in the work place. Managers should aim to affect the ethical climate.

Ethical challenges in Human Resources

In the area of human resources, the human resource manager has ...

Introduction

Many companies often hide their trade secret with the aim of achieving an economic advantage over its competitors. The secret may comprise of industrial or manufacturing secret as well as commercial secret. The use of the trade secret by an unauthorized party is considered a violation of the trade secret, as well as, an unfair practice. The protection of trade secret may form a part of the general perception of protection depending on the legal system or usually is a case law of classified information. This paper is going to look at three scenarios in which some people may or may not ...

Advertising is used as a means to publicize a particular product or service to its target market. Companies often vie to produce the most creative, lucrative, and efficient advertisements in their respective industries. However, in the high demand for such advertisements, certain campaigns tend to neglect their responsibility of proper advertising. Various forms of deceptive advertising are seen almost everywhere and the most notorious will be tackled later on. To be specific, any form of advertisement that lures consumers to purchase a product or service due to a misunderstanding may be ...

One of the most important communication tools to reach potential customers is advertising. Parallel to that the competition among big corporations these days is so severe that some are ready to cross the line of ethics and mislead their potential customers through advertising. Deceptive advertisements are created in such skillful way that customer although paying lots of money, feels that he made a good deal.According to the financial dictionary false/deceptive advertising is “Advertising that contains blatantly false or misleading statements, whether intentional or not.” (http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com) Business Mantra also has articles reflecting the topic, where they define it as “Deceptive ...

Freedom of speech, also known as freedom of expression, can be defined as the freedom to express oneself without censorship. The freedom of expression is considered as the core or cornerstone of all the democratic rights and freedoms. This is because it formed the basis of all other human rights, since it was in existence before any other human rights were put into practice. As a human right, freedom of speech is now recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, under Article 19 of the declaration. The right to freedom of speech is also recognized in the International Covenant ...