Other categories include "injurious falsehood" or disparagement of business goodwill and certain economic torts.

Kowal for damages for injurious falsehood and intentional interference with economic relations.

The action of malicious or injurious falsehood has both similarities to, and important differences from, an action for libel.

Malicious falsehood or injurious falsehood is a tort.

His claim against the government alleges negligence, malice, injurious falsehood, defamation, deceit and misleading conduct.

The company says the wording of a label on Smith's "Magnificent Sliced Beetroot" constitutes injurious falsehood.

His claim against Victorian surgeon Dr Simon Woods, is for alleged negligence, injurious falsehood and defamation.

Business or economic torts typically involve commercial transactions, and include tortious interference with trade or contract, fraud, injurious falsehood, and negligent misrepresentation.

Huntsman said the counterclaims include breach of contract, breach of good faith and fair dealing, defamation, injurious falsehood, and commercial disparagement.

Last year, Prof Knight lodged a Supreme Court claim alleging his dismissal amounted to a breach of contract, defamation, conspiracy and injurious falsehood.

In 2001, Clive Cussler filed a lawsuit against E. Lee Spence for unfair competition, injurious falsehood, civil conspiracy, and defamation.

"The media outlets that have broadcast certain matters, I think, would not be surprised when they're served with statements of claim alleging defamation and injurious falsehood etc," Stanton said.

After several weeks, Rall filed a $1.5-million lawsuit for libel per se, libel per quod, injurious falsehood, violation of civil rights, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

In Canada and the Commonwealth the principal categories are the torts of passing off and injurious falsehood, although other so-called "economic torts" protecting economic relations and the preservation of competition might be included.

Injurious falsehood involves the malicious publication of a false statement concerning a person or that person's property, which is disparaging of the person's property or business and which results in actual economic loss to the person.

Corporations may, however, still sue for the tort of injurious falsehood, where the burden of proof is greater than for mere defamation, because the plaintiff must show that the defamation was made with malice and resulted in economic loss.

Taser, which has been under scrutiny over the safety of its stun guns, said it filed suit in Arizona Superior Court accusing Gannett of libel, false light invasion of privacy, injurious falsehood and interference with business relations.

In response, the Council decided that rather than simply explaining that it was treated effluent and not "sewage" that was being pumped out to sea, it would instead commence litigation for defamation and the economic tort of injurious falsehood.

On November 21, 2007, Ayman A. Difrawi and Internet Solutions Corporation filed a lawsuit against Henderson and others, accusing them of defamation, trade libel, injurious falsehood, false light invasion of privacy, civil conspiracy, and RICO violations.

The Amherst, New York-based company's lawsuit accused various defendants of false advertising that violated the federal Lanham Act, and a New York state law against deceptive business activity, injurious falsehood, and interfering with its dealings with hospitals and health care providers.

The principal torts can be listed as passing off, injurious falsehood and trade libel (see also Food libel laws), conspiracy, inducement of breach of contract, tortious interference (such as interference with economic relations or unlawful interference with trade), and watching and besetting.

Issue negative research report, be accused of trade libel.

This is a case of trade libel.

An action related to passing-off is trade libel, sometimes referred to a malicious falsehood.

Trade libel, the spreading of false information about the quality or characteristics of a competitor's products, is prohibited at common law.

The tort of trade libel also exists to deal with false or misleading advertisements designed to injure the competitor.

The plaintiff, Compaq, sued for trade mark infringement, passing-off and trade libel.

It also upheld Phillips" refusal to let Seaton add claims of trade libel and interference with prospective business.

Warnaco countered with its own suit asserting that Mr. Klein's charges amounted to trade libel.

In a judgment of trade libel in Florida, the court would assume that the libel has caused some damage to the business of the claimant.

Their claims against Lavasoft of false advertising, unfair competition, trade libel, and tortious interference were stricken and dismissed with prejudice the following year.

In a November 5 judgment, the court dismissed all claims except defamation and trade libel, and gave ZL 30 days to file an amended complaint.

In addition to its allegation of defamation, SVA submitted that Kuprewicz "committed the tort of trade libel."

In Joyce v Sengupta (1992), the Vice Chancellor said that essential ingredients for an action in trade libel were falsity and malice.

The complaint alleged Apple's acts in favoring its own stores constituted breach of contract, false advertising, fraud, trade libel, defamation, and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.

The policy covers a wide range of e-commerce risks from breached intellectual property rights to libelous mis-statements including trade libel - when one product is compared unfavorably with another.

Code Rebel filed a countersuit against Aqua Connect in June 2013, alleging, among other things, a pattern of trade libel, business interference and unfair business practices.

Randolph is asking for unspecified damages for trade libel, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage.

GTE sought unspecified money damages in its counterclaim, which was a trade libel suit, meaning a charge by a company that it has been libeled by another company.

In May 2007, adware distributor Zango filed a lawsuit against Kaspersky Lab, accusing it of trade libel for blocking the installation of Zango software.

In 2010, Art of Living sued two anonymous bloggers, "Skywalker" and "Klim", accusing them of defamation, trade libel, copyright infringement and disclosing trade secrets.

Nevertheless, as there was not any "false matter derogatory statement to SVA's business" in those job listings, the court concluded that trade libel as a "cause of action must also be dismissed."

Selna did toss out TYR's allegation of trade libel, saying the California-based company failed to show Speedo caused "special damages" with its promotion of the LZR suit.

Both the business disparagement claim, which was viewed as trade libel, and the unfair competition claim, based on disparaging remarks, required that CompuServe knew or had reason to know of the defamatory remarks.

The suit -- filed Wednesday in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan -- seeks $4 million in damages on three charges: Breach of contract, product disparagement and trade libel.

Commonly included among improper means are actions which are independently actionable, violations of federal or state law or unethical business practices, e.g., violence, misrepresentation, unfounded litigation, defamation, trade libel or trade mark infringement.