Discipline: Economics
Unfair Competition is a common reference to all sorts of unaccepted business practices that unjustly favors a company against its competitors.
Unfair Competition practices can lead to civil or criminal causes of action under the commercial law of the land.
Examples of unfair competition include: trademark infridgements, misappropriation of trade secrets, deceptive promotion campaigns, and copyright violations.
Also see: anti-dumping, dumping