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Full-Text Articles in Intellectual Property Law
2003 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Roberta Horton, Catherine Rowland
2003 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Roberta Horton, Catherine Rowland
American University Law Review
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Intellectual Property Trademark Law—Victor/Victoria?—The United States Supreme Court Requires Trademark Dilution Plaintiffs To Show Actual Harm. Mosely V. Victoria's Secret Catalogue, Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003), Stephanie Egner
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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Trademarks And Consumer Search Costs On The Internet, Stacey Dogan
Trademarks And Consumer Search Costs On The Internet, Stacey Dogan
Faculty Scholarship
In theory, trademarks serve as information tools, by conveying product information through convenient, identifiable symbols. In practice, however, trademarks have increasingly been used to obstruct the flow of information about competing products and services. In the online context, in particular, some courts have recently allowed trademark holders to block uses of their marks that would never have raised an eyebrow in a brick-and-mortar setting - uses that increase, rather than diminish, the flow of truthful, relevant information to consumers. These courts have stretched trademark doctrine on more than one dimension, both by expanding the concept of actionable "confusion" and by …