Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
The combination of the recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Romag Fasteners v. Fossil Group, Inc., and the diamond anniversary of the Lanham Act provides good grounds to reflect on how trademark enforcement and statutory incentives have evolved through the years. Although enforcement of one’s trademarks through the use of the courts can be traced back to England in the 1790s, trademark litigation and other enforcement activities have exploded, in relative terms, since the enactment of the Lanham Act in 1946. Although not subject to an easy empirical correlation, this trend suggests that the statute has had an impact on increasing the incentives to enforce one’s trademark. This Article examines this evolution, attempting to highlight which changes could be providing increased incentives to trademark owners to aggressively enforce—and in some cases, over-enforce—their marks.
Publication Citation
39 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 931 (2021).
Recommended Citation
Grinvald, Leah Chan, "Trademark Enforcement and Statutory Incentives" (2021). Scholarly Works. 1380.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1380