Abstract Using a new trademark-based product market competition measure and novel trademark-merger data set over the period 1983–2016, we show that companies facing greater are more likely to be acquirers. We further postmerger, compared their nonacquiring peers, acquirers consolidate offerings by discontinuing existing lines developing fewer lines. quasi-experiment based on bids withdrawn due ...

We review various issues related to techniques for searching through collections of trademarks for phonetic and other verbal similarities. Based on recent case studies, we survey judicial arbitrations that have established whether trademarks are similar or not and comment on popular algorithms for performing approximate searches, both phonetically and based on letter sequences. The particularit...

Trademarks are intellectual property assets with potentially high reputational value. Their infringement may lead to lost revenue, lower profits and damages to brand reputation. A test normally conducted to check whether a trademark is highly likely to infringe other existing, already registered, trademarks is called a likelihood of confusion test. One of the most influential factors in this te...

This study aims to examine and analyze how legal protection remedies can be carried out by trademark rights holders who feel aggrieved. research uses a form of normative research, namely based on written legislation various related literature. with the problems that will discussed in this study.The for is existence Law Number 20 2016 concerning Marks Geographical Indications (UU MIG), Permenkum...