<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 8/30/01 11:02:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
<BR>cedel@supernet.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am currently a PTG chapter president. Does that make me a president of the
<BR>PTG? I would consider that misrepresentation.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">If you are a current member of the PTG, you are not allowed, by our Bylaws,
<BR>to use your position in the PTG in any advertising. This includes being an
<BR>officer, examiner, or member of a committee.
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<BR>I can't imagine a former President (of the whole organization) not
<BR>maintaining
<BR>his membership in PTG until his dying day. Maybe the ad is not technically
<BR>false, but I'm quite certain it will give the false impression. No one
<BR>should
<BR>resort to that. Too bad.
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<BR>Regards, Clyde</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">There is a former president of the PTG who is no longer a member of the PTG.
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<BR>A person who is not a member of the PTG may not advertise membership in the
<BR>PTG. Yellow Pages across the country are supposed to have paper work on this.
<BR>Technically, this person could be sued for false advertising. If the PTG
<BR>wants to pursue this to the full extent, it is my understanding that the PTG
<BR>could force the technician to change his/her phone number.
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<BR>But now comes the big question. This person is advertising he is a former
<BR>president and thus presumably a former member of the PTG. Since he is clearly
<BR>stating he is a former member of the PTG, can the PTG legally stop him from
<BR>advertising as such.
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<BR>Any legal minds out there want to answer this?
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<BR>Wim
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<BR>Gary McCormick wrote:
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<BR>> There's a new tuner in town; he's got a nice ad in the yellow pages where
<BR>he
<BR>> also claims to have been a former president of the PTG.
<BR>> So, I go to ptg.org to look up where he's from, and he's not listed! I go
<BR>> back to the yellow pages, and sure enough, he doesn't have RPT in his ad.
<BR>> Is this misleading, or copyright infringement?
<BR>> Gary McCormick
<BR>> (By the way, I just turned in my own application for membership in the
<BR>PTG,
<BR>> to my area president, Kirk Alford)
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