TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.34667/tind.28885
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Trademarks Squatters :Evidence from Chile.
AU  - Fink, Carsten
AU  - Helmers, Christian
AU  - Ponce, Carlos
L1  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/28885/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_22.pdf
LA  - eng
ID  - 28885
L4  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/28885/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_22.pdf
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Trademarks.
SN  - 2957-8256
TI  - Trademarks Squatters :Evidence from Chile.
L2  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/28885/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_22.pdf
LK  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/28885/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_22.pdf
UR  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/28885/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_22.pdf
ER  -