Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 16.101 · Subchapter C. ENFORCEMENT
FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person who procures for the person or another the filing of an application or the registration of a mark under this chapter by knowingly making a false or fraudulent representation or declaration, oral or written, or by any other fraudulent means, is liable to pay all damages sustained as a result of the filing or registration. The damages may be recovered by or on behalf of the injured party in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 563 (H.B. 3141), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2012.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.16.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 473509651fd78f8bb3a34b908a82d06455143df95739c292c2f9cb772672ceac
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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