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Continuing Uncertainty Over the Protection of Well-Known Marks in the United States

Continuing Uncertainty Over the Protection of Well-Known Marks in the United States

Graeme Dinwoodie is a Professor of Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and is an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. The well-known marks doctrine provides an exception to the general rule of territoriality and will protect a foreign mark that is well-known but not used in the United States.  Although it has long been assumed that […]