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WI Stat § 132.18 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 132 - Trademarks, badges and labeled products.|132.18 - Use of gaseous compounds in containers.

132.18  Use of gaseous compounds in containers. (1) No person, firm or corporation, excepting the manufacturer thereof or persons authorized by said manufacturer so to do, shall sell or offer for sale or deliver, carbon dioxide, acetylene, oxygen, hydrogen or any other gas or gaseous compound, shipped, consigned or delivered in steel containers or containers made of other metal, unless such containers shall bear upon the surface thereof, in plainly legible characters, the name, initials or trademark of the manufacturer. (2) No person, firm or corporation other than such manufacturer or persons authorized by such manufacturer so to do, shall refill or use in any manner such container or receptacle which has imprinted thereon the name, initials or trademark of such manufacturer, for any gas, compound or other material whatsoever. (3) No person, firm or corporation to whom such product of said manufacturer has been sold or delivered in such containers, shall sell, loan, deliver or permit to be delivered such containers to any persons whomsoever other than such manufacturer or persons authorized by such manufacturer to receive the delivery of such containers. (4) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to any carbon dioxide or other products above referred to, contained in such containers, unless the title to such containers is retained by said manufacturer or its representative and unless said carbon dioxide and other products contained in said containers were sold and delivered upon the understanding and agreement that the container in which it was delivered shall be returned to such manufacturer or its representative as soon as the contents thereof have been used up by the purchaser. (5) Any person who shall fail to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
WI Stat § 132.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 132 - Trademarks, badges and labeled products.|132.19 - Use of mark without authority.

132.19  Use of mark without authority. Every person who knowingly and willfully uses or displays the genuine mark of any person, association or union in any manner, or in or about the sale of goods or merchandise not being authorized so to do by such person, union or association, shall be imprisoned for not more than 3 months or fined not more than $100. This section does not apply to the purchase of merchandise in good faith from a distributor or the retail sale of that merchandise in good faith.History:  1985 a. 181.
WI Stat § 132.20 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 132 - Trademarks, badges and labeled products.|132.20 - Trafficking in counterfeit marks.

132.20  Trafficking in counterfeit marks. (1) In this section, “traffic" means any of the following:(a) Transfer, assign or dispose of.(b) Advertise, promote or offer to transfer, assign or dispose of.(c) Receive, possess, transport or exercise control of, with intent to transfer, assign or dispose of.(d) Assist another person to do any act under pars. (a) to (c). (2) Any person who, with intent to deceive, traffics or attempts to traffic in this state in a counterfeit mark or in any goods or service bearing or provided under a counterfeit mark is guilty of a Class H felony, except that, notwithstanding the maximum fine specified in s. 939.50 (3) (h), if the person is an individual he or she may be fined not more than $250,000 and if the person is not an individual the person may be fined not more than $1,000,000. (3) It is a defense to liability under this section that before another person registered an identical mark under s. 132.01 a person acquired the right under common law or federal law to traffic in a mark.History:  1985 a. 181; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.
WI Stat § 132.25 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 132 - Trademarks, badges and labeled products.|132.25 - Common law rights.

132.25  Common law rights. Nothing in this chapter affects any right in a mark which is acquired under common law.History:  1985 a. 181.
WI Stat § 133.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.01 - Legislative intent.

133.01  Legislative intent. The intent of this chapter is to safeguard the public against the creation or perpetuation of monopolies and to foster and encourage competition by prohibiting unfair and discriminatory business practices which destroy or hamper competition. It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter be interpreted in a manner which gives the most liberal construction to achieve the aim of competition. It is the intent of the legislature to make competition the fundamental economic policy of this state and, to that end, state regulatory agencies shall regard the public interest as requiring the preservation and promotion of the maximum level of competition in any regulated industry consistent with the other public interest goals established by the legislature.History:  1979 c. 209.This section does not require that any regulation must employ the least anticompetitive means to achieve a legislatively mandated goal. It is nowhere stated that it is the intent of this section that the entire statutes be interpreted in light of this section. This section applies when parties assert violations of antitrust law. County of Milwaukee v. Williams, 2007 WI 69, 301 Wis. 2d 134, 732 N.W.2d 770, 05-2686.A defendant's actions that were exempt from federal antitrust laws were also shielded from state antitrust laws. Suburban Beverages v. Pabst Brewing, 462 F. Supp. 1301 (1978).The application of ch. 133 to cases involving interstate commerce is discussed. Emergency One, Inc. v. Waterous Co., Inc. 23 F. Supp. 2d 959 (1998).Spotting unreasonable restraints of trade without difficulty. Hansen, WBB June 1982.Wisconsin's Antitrust Law: Outsourcing the Legal Standard. Waxman. 94 MLR 1173 (2011).
WI Stat § 133.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.02 - Definitions.

133.02  Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Commodity" includes, but is not limited to, goods, merchandise, produce and any other article of commerce. “Commodity" includes services, except as used in s. 133.04. (2) “Knowingly" means that the actor believes that the specified fact exists. (3) “Person" includes individuals, the state and all its political subdivisions, all counties, cities, villages, towns, school districts, governmental agencies and bodies politic and corporate, and all corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations, companies, firms, joint ventures, joint stock companies, trusts, business trusts, estates and other legal or commercial entities existing under or authorized by the laws of this or any other state, the United States or any of its territories or any foreign country. Nothing in this definition may be construed to affect labor unions or any other association of laborers organized to promote the welfare of its members, nor associations or organizations intended to legitimately promote the interests of trade, commerce or manufacturing in this state, nor associations, corporate or otherwise, of farmers, gardeners or dairy workers or owners, including livestock farmers and fruit growers engaged in making collective sales or marketing for its members or shareholders of farm, orchard or dairy products produced by its members or shareholders if such activities are exempted under s. 133.07, 133.08 or 133.09 or are otherwise lawful under this chapter.History:  1979 c. 209; 1993 a. 112.
WI Stat § 133.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.04 - Price discrimination; intent to destroy competition.

133.04  Price discrimination; intent to destroy competition. (1) No person may discriminate, either directly or indirectly, in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality, for the purpose or intent of injuring or destroying competition in any level of competition or any person engaged therein. (2) Any person violating this section may be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year or both. (3) As an alternative to the criminal penalty for violation of this section, the department of justice or district attorney may bring an action for a civil forfeiture. In an action for a civil forfeiture under this subsection a person who violates this section may be required to forfeit not more than $25,000. (4) The provisions of this section as they relate to the business of insurance are superseded by the provisions of chs. 611, 613 and 628.History:  1979 c. 209; 1979 c. 355 ss. 131, 132; 1983 a. 215 s. 17.Civil violations of this section must meet the ordinary civil burden of proof. Carlson & Erickson v. Lampert Yards, 190 Wis. 2d 650, 529 N.W.2d 905 (1995).Promotional price cutting and section 2 (a) of the Robinson-Patman Act. Gifford. 1976 WLR 1045.
WI Stat § 133.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.05 - Secret rebates; unfair trade practices.

133.05  Secret rebates; unfair trade practices. (1) The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions or unearned discounts, whether in the form of money or otherwise, or the secret extension to certain purchasers of special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers purchasing upon like terms and conditions, such payment, allowance or extension injuring or tending to injure a competitor or destroying or tending to destroy competition, is an unfair trade practice and is prohibited. (2) No person may induce, solicit or receive anything of value which is prohibited under sub. (1). (3) Any person knowingly violating this section may be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year or both. (4) As an alternative to the criminal penalty for violation of this section, the department of justice or district attorney may bring an action for a civil forfeiture. In an action for a civil forfeiture under this subsection a person who violates this section may be required to forfeit not more than $25,000. (5) This section does not apply to the insurance business.History:  1979 c. 209; 1983 a. 215.Competitive injury is a required element under this section, but intent to injure is not. OB-GYN Assoc. of Neenah v. Landig, 129 Wis. 2d 362, 384 N.W.2d 719 (Ct. App. 1986).A violation of sub. (1) occurs when a discount, both secret and unearned, tends to injure or injures competition. “Earned" discount is defined. Jauquet Lumber v. Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork, 164 Wis. 2d 689, 476 N.W.2d 305 (Ct. App. 1991).This section is not unconstitutionally vague. Knowledge is an element of a violation of sub. (2). Carlson & Erickson v. Lampert Yards, 183 Wis. 2d 220, 515 N.W.2d 305 (Ct. App. 1994).Civil violations of this section must meet the ordinary civil burden of proof. Carlson & Erickson v. Lampert Yards, 190 Wis. 2d 650, 529 N.W.2d 905 (1995).“Rebates," “refunds," and “discounts" in sub. (1) mean essentially the same thing, a reduction or credit that is tied to the price of the good or service being purchased by the recipient of the reduction or credit. To be a “discount" a payment or allowance must be a reduction from the price that would be paid if the “discount" were not given. Tele-Port, Inc. v. Ameritech Mobile Communications, Inc. 2001 WI App 261, 248 Wis. 2d 846, 637 N.W.2d 782, 00-2627.Civil violations of this section must be proved by clear, satisfactory and convincing evidence.
WI Stat § 133.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.06 - Interlocking directorates.

133.06  Interlocking directorates. (1) No corporation with its principal place of business in this state may elect or appoint any person as a director or permit any person to serve as a director, if:(a) That person was at the same time a director of any other corporation; and(b) Either corporation has capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating more than $100,000. In this paragraph, the amount shall be determined by the aggregate amount of the capital, surplus and undivided profits, exclusive of dividends declared but not paid to stockholders, at the end of the fiscal year of the corporation next preceding the election of directors; and(c) Such corporations are, or have been, by virtue of their business and location of operation, competitors, so that the elimination of competition by agreement between them would violate this chapter. (2) If a corporation has lawfully elected or appointed a director, the corporation may permit the director to serve in such capacity for one year thereafter, notwithstanding sub. (1). This section shall not apply to any corporation chartered by the federal government if its selection of directors is exempt from state law, but a person may be deemed ineligible for the service on the board of any corporation not so exempt because of concurrent service on the board of an exempt corporation. (3) Any corporation violating this section may be enjoined from permitting such person to serve as a director and from doing business in this state, so long as such violation continues. (4) This section does not apply to the insurance business.History:  1979 c. 209; 1983 a. 215.
WI Stat § 133.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.07 - Certain organizations and activities not forbidden.

133.07  Certain organizations and activities not forbidden. (1) This chapter shall not prohibit the existence and operation of labor, agricultural or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purpose of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or organizations permitted under ch. 185 or 193; shall not forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; and such organizations, or the members thereof, shall not be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under this chapter. The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. (2) This chapter does not prohibit activities of any public utility, as defined in s. 196.01 (5), or telecommunications carrier, as defined in s. 196.01 (8m), which are required by ch. 196 or rules or orders under ch. 196, activities necessary to comply with that chapter or those rules or orders or activities that are actively supervised by the public service commission. This subsection does not apply to activities of a public utility or telecommunications carrier that are exempt from public service commission regulation under s. 196.195, 196.202, 196.203, 196.206, 196.219, 196.499, or 196.50 (2) (i) or by other action by the commission.History:  1979 c. 209; 1993 a. 496; 2005 a. 441; 2011 a. 22.Antitrust — Labor law. 1976 WLR 271.
WI Stat § 133.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.09 - Collective bargaining.

133.09  Collective bargaining. This chapter shall be so construed as to permit collective bargaining by associations of producers of agricultural products, by organizations permitted under ch. 185 or 193 and by associations of employees when such bargaining is actually and expressly done for the individual benefit of the separate members of each such association making such collective bargain. History:  1979 c. 209; 2005 a. 441.
WI Stat § 133.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.10 - Examination of adverse party.

133.10  Examination of adverse party. (1) The examination of any party, or if a corporation or limited liability company be a party, of the president, secretary, other principal officer or the general managing agent thereof, or of the person who was such president, secretary, officer or agent at the time of the occurrence of the facts made the subject of the examination, or of any person acting for another or for a corporation, limited liability company or partnership, other than as a witness on a trial, may be taken by deposition at the instance of the department of justice in any such action or proceeding at any time between the commencement thereof and final judgment. Such deposition shall be taken within the state before a judge at chambers or a supplemental court commissioner on previous notice to such party and any other adverse party or the attorney thereof of at least 5 days, and may be taken without the state. (2) The attendance of the party to be examined may be compelled by subpoena, without prepayment of witness fees, and the examination is subject to the same rules as govern that of other witnesses; but such party shall not be compelled to disclose anything not relevant to the controversy. (3) The examination may not be compelled in any other county than that of the party's residence except in the county of Dane; but the deposition of a defendant who is a nonresident of the state may be taken as in other cases.History:  1979 c. 209; 1993 a. 112; 2001 a. 61.
WI Stat § 133.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.11 - Investigatory proceeding.

133.11  Investigatory proceeding. (1) Whenever the attorney general files with any supplemental court commissioner a statement that the attorney general has reason to believe and does believe that a violation of this chapter has occurred, the commissioner shall issue a subpoena or a subpoena requiring the production of materials as requested by the department of justice. Mileage or witness fees are not required to be paid in advance but claims for such mileage and fees duly verified and approved by the department of justice shall be audited and paid out of the state treasury and charged to the appropriation provided by s. 20.455 (1) (d), and shall be at the same rates as witnesses in the circuit court. (2) The testimony shall be taken by a stenographic reporter, transcribed, read to or by the witness and subscribed by the witness, unless the parties represented shall stipulate, upon the record, that the reading of the transcript of the testimony to or by the witness and the signature thereto are waived, and that the transcript may be used with like force and effect as if read and subscribed by the witness. The attendance of the witness for the purpose of reading and subscribing the transcript may be compelled in the same manner that attendance to be examined may be compelled. (3) The supplemental court commissioner shall be entitled to the fees as provided in s. 814.68 (1). All such fees and all other costs and expenses incident to the inquiry shall be paid out of the appropriation provided by s. 20.455 (1) (d).History:  1979 c. 209; 1981 c. 314; 1981 c. 317 s. 2202; 2001 a. 61.
WI Stat § 133.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.12 - Domestic and foreign corporations and limited liability companies; cancellation of charters or certificates of authority for restraining trade; affidavit.

133.12  Domestic and foreign corporations and limited liability companies; cancellation of charters or certificates of authority for restraining trade; affidavit. Any corporation or limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or foreign corporation or foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state pursuant to a certificate of authority from the department of financial institutions which violates any provision of this chapter, may, upon proof thereof, in any circuit court have its charter or authority to transact business in this state suspended, canceled or annulled. Every corporation shall, in its annual report filed with the department of financial institutions, show whether it has entered into any contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce. The department of justice shall enforce this section.History:  1979 c. 209; 1993 a. 112; 1995 a. 27, 400.
WI Stat § 133.13 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.13 - Interrogatories.

133.13  Interrogatories. (1) If the department of justice has reason to believe that any corporation or limited liability company has violated any provision of this chapter, the department of justice may address to any such corporation or limited liability company or to any director, officer or manager interrogatories deemed necessary to determine whether or not the entity has violated any provision of this chapter. The corporation, limited liability company, director, officer or manager so addressed shall promptly and fully answer in writing under oath the interrogatories; the failure or neglect by any such corporation, limited liability company, director, officer or manager to do so within 60 days from receipt of the interrogatories, unless the time is extended in writing by the department of justice, shall constitute grounds for suspension, cancellation or annulment of its corporate charter or authority to transact business in this state under s. 133.12. (2) Any person providing information under this section may designate the information as confidential business information or a trade secret as defined in s. 134.90 (1) (c). The department of justice shall notify the person providing the information 15 days before any information designated as confidential or trade secret is disclosed to the legislature, a state agency, a local unit of government or any other person. The person furnishing the information may seek a court order limiting or prohibiting the disclosure. In such cases the court shall weigh the need for confidentiality of the information against the public interest in the disclosure. Confidentiality is waived if the person providing the information consents to disclosure or if disclosure is authorized by a court.History:  1979 c. 209; 1985 a. 236; 1993 a. 112.
WI Stat § 133.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 133 - Trusts and monopolies.|133.14 - Illegal contracts void; recovery.

133.14  Illegal contracts void; recovery. All contracts or agreements made by any person while a member of any combination or conspiracy prohibited by s. 133.03, and which contract or agreement is founded upon, is the result of, grows out of or is connected with any violation of such section, either directly or indirectly, shall be void and no recovery thereon or benefit therefrom may be had by or for such person. Any payment made upon, under or pursuant to such contract or agreement to or for the benefit of any person may be recovered from any person who received or benefited from such payment in an action by the party making any such payment or the heirs, personal representative or assigns of the party.History:  1979 c. 209.The fact that plaintiff gave illegal rebates to competitors is no defense to an action for the price of goods sold. Roux Laboratories v. Beauty Franchises, 60 Wis. 2d 427, 210 N.W.2d 441.Remedy provided by s. 133.23 (1969 stats.) is not on its face unconstitutional. Madison v. Hyland, Hall & Co. 73 Wis. 2d 364, 243 N.W.2d 422.