Counterfeits cause tremendous damages to brand companies by eroding market shares and reducing customers' willingness to pay. Realizing such problem, many brand companies develop and deploy anticounterfeit technologies to prevent counterfeiters from imitating their products. In this paper, we...

True to its nature of a (hopefully) once in a lifetime event, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a tsunami of trademark applications including the terms “COVID,” “Coronavirus,” and other medical and pandemic-management related terms. This unprecedented number of applications has been...