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Trademark Owner As Adverse Possessor: Productive Use And Property Acquisition, Jake Linford
Trademark Owner As Adverse Possessor: Productive Use And Property Acquisition, Jake Linford
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There is an ongoing debate over whether or not a trademark is “property,” and what the appropriate boundaries of such a property right might be. Some scholars assert that rules and justifications developed to handle rights in real property are generally a poor fit for intellectual property regimes and for trademark protection in particular. Others respond that a unified theory of property should be able to account for both real and intellectual property. Neither approach fully recognizes that property regimes are multifaceted. A close look at the critical features of particular regimes can pay unexpected dividends.
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