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Firms often register trademarks as they launch new products or services. We find that the number of new trademark registrations positively predicts firm profitability, stock returns, and underreaction by analysts in their earnings forecasts. Using the Federal Trademark Dilution Act (FTDA) as an...
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The doctrines of trademark genericism and functionality serve similar functions under the Lanham Act and the common law of unfair competition. Genericism, in the context of word marks, and functionality, for trade dress, bar trademark registration under the Lanham Act and, both under the Act and...
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Powerful brands dominate our transnational landscapes. Brand value — referred to in law as trademark goodwill — is co … consumer patronage, trademark goodwill is critically important not only for business ability to attract and retain customers …. This Article focuses on the role of trademark goodwill in signaling sustainability standards as key informational …
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the worlds of marketing, economics and accounting that intangible assets associated with trademarks, brands and goodwill …
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This study investigates the role of trademarks in the start-up valuations of venture capitalists (VCs). Our results show that the number and breadth of trademark applications have inverted U-shaped relationships with the financial valuations of start-ups by VCs. The findings also indicate that...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the innovative activity of the top corporate R&D investors worldwide and their valuation on the financial markets. The empirical analysis is based on a sample of more than 1,500 top publicly listed Multinational Corporations (MNCs) performing a...
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A wide variety of abbreviations are currently in use as trademarks. These may consist of initialisms, acronyms, or other truncated versions of underlying words or phrases. In some cases, the underlying words or phrases may be either generic or descriptive. While it is well settled that trademark...
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that feed business strategy. At the same time, networked and empowered consumers are using brands, brand language, and … trademarks: brand theory. This theory explains riddles within current trademark doctrine and provides the foundation for a new … possibility that trademarks can be true information resources for all stakeholders in a brand — corporations, consumers, and …
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loose agglomerations of trademarks but, instead, contain complex structures that coherently protect a company’s brand. I … and make them visible. Brand management decisions can therefore be observed through trademarks. When new products are … introduced, brand management deals with decisions to either create new brands or use existing ones. Such decisions require …
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The law generally ignores the role of emotions in consumer decision-making, although emotions are widely acknowledged to play a dominant role in shaping preferences concerning risk, borrowing, consumption and choice. Trademark law has been especially suspicious of the role that emotion plays in...
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