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    colloquial language, puffery refers to exaggerated or false praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked...
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    Menu (section Puffery)
    advertising, the prose found on printed menus is famous for the degree of its puffery. Menus frequently emphasize the processes used to prepare foods, call attention...
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    performed its terms. It is notable for its treatment of contract and of puffery in advertising, for its curious subject matter associated with medical...
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    a jet worth roughly $37.4 million for $700,000, i.e., that it was mere puffery. The value of the alleged contract meant that it fell under the provisions...
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  • mail fraud. The defendant stated that as a salesman he had engaged in puffery. In United States v. Takhalov (2016), female nightclub employees would...
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  • "'No frills' war slashes grocery prices", Toronto Star, March 21, 1978 "Puffery leaves the consumer cold", Globe and Mail, April 12, 1978 "no frills pricelist"...
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  • product performs, looks or tastes; other times it is used for advertising puffery. Companies can go to elaborate lengths to maintain secrecy, repackaging...
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  • requires little proof on the part of advertisers", as it is considered mere puffery. The use of the term in patent law "does not connote even superiority,...
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  • "Evil spirits", such as "Paid Puffery" and "Suggestiveness", spew from "the modern daily press" in this Puck cartoon of November 21, 1888....
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    however, evidence of confusion of an average consumer is needed. Puffing (or puffery) is exaggerating a product's worth with meaningless or unsubstantiated...
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