This chapter for the Cambridge Handbook on Comparative and International Trademark Law compares the doctrinal strategies deployed by the European Union and United States to serving the anti-misappropriation impulse in trademark law. While the EU's enforcement regime openly embraces...

Investment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries in the market leading to a higher level of economic development. Investment in brands and intangibles has seen an increase in the last fifteen...