Navigate the complex laws governing "Made in USA" claims, understand robust FTC enforcement, and safeguard your clients from costly missteps in advertising and labeling.
You see the claims everywhere from auto parts to consumer products to anything and everything you may buy on Amazon. But what regulates advertising claims? And what does it mean to be made in America when components come from abroad and parts may be assembled here into a final product?
Explore this fascinating area of law that is growing in importance due to increased Federal Trade Commission scrutiny, class action lawsuits, and significant damages awards that have been issued for misleading “Made in America” claims.
Learn the governing rules, see the cases at work, with some fun sidebars along the way to look at Lanham Act claims on “Made in America” ads, the Buy American Act, and the viability, under the First Amendment, of the federal code’s ostensible prohibition on using flags in commercial speech.
And yes, this program was Made in America!
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
