@article{28885,
      author = {Fink, Carsten and Helmers, Christian and Ponce, Carlos},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/28885},
      title = {Trademarks Squatters : Evidence from Chile.},
      abstract = {This paper explores the phenomenon of "trademark  squatting" - a situation in which someone other than the  original brand owner obtains a trademark on a brand. The  authors develop a model that shows how squatting results  from market uncertainty that leads brand owners to  rationally forgo registering trademarks, creating  opportunities for squatting. They create an algorithm to  identify squatters in the Chilean trademark register and  show empirically that squatting is a persistent and  systematic phenomenon. Using data on trademark oppositions,  the authors find that squatting leads brand owners that  have been exposed to squatting to "over-protect" their  brands by registering disproportionately many trademarks  and covering classes other than those directly related to  their products and services. Trademark squatting,  therefore, creates a strategic, albeit excessive, response  by brand owners which inflates trademark filings.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.34667/tind.28885},
      recid = {28885},
      pages = {55 pages ;},
}