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Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Intellectual Property Law

2015

Bullying

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Trademark Extortion Revisited: A Response To Vogel And Schachter, Kenneth L. Port Jan 2015

Trademark Extortion Revisited: A Response To Vogel And Schachter, Kenneth L. Port

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Trademark bullying (a.k.a. trademark extortion) is a very controversial notion in trademark litigation in the United States. There, for sure, is a lot of illegitimate trademark infringement happening. Anecdotally, we also know that trademark holders often overstep in the assertion of their otherwise legitimate rights. For the first time, this article documents how large a problem trademark bullying is and how often it happens. Trademark bullying occurs when there is evidence that a trademark holder asserts a non-famous mark against a non-competing entity on or in connection with goods or services into which the plaintiff has no reasonable expectation of …