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Dear Commissioner Savoie:

This office is in receipt of your recent opinion request regarding the Louisiana Trade Marks and Trade Names Law. Specifically, you raise the following issue for our review:

Whether the use of the verbiage "State University" by a non-public institution in its official name is a violation of LSA-R.S. 51:224?

In response to this issue, we turn first to the provisions of LSA-R.S. 51:224, which in part provides:

(A) No person shall use for any commercial purpose any name, work, symbol, or device or any combination thereof which resembles the official name, symbol, seal, or…