No person shall commit any of the following acts:
1. Indicating "patented" or "patent pending" or any similar misleading word on any unpatented thing, anything for which no patent application has been filed, anything manufactured by any unpatented process or by any process for which no patent application has been filed, or any container or packaging of such thing;
2. Assigning, leasing, or displaying a thing bearing an indication referred to in subparagraph 1;
3. Indicating a thing referred to in subparagraph 1 with any such words meaning that the thing is patented, that a patent is pending for the thing, or that the thing has been manufactured by a patented process or by a process for which a patent is pending or with any similar misleading word, in an advertisement, sign, or name tag to manufacture, use, assign, or lease the thing;
4. Indicating any unpatented process or any process for which no patent application has been filed, as "patented" or "patent pending", or any similar misleading word, in an advertisement, sign, or name tag to use, assign, or lease the process.[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 11, 2014]