Trademark Counterfeiting

Trademark counterfeiting is the use of a party's mark on ''knockoff'' goods, such as placing the ROLEX® mark on inferior watches, placing the GUCCI® mark on inferior quality handbags, and placing BEANIE BABY® tags on nonauthentic toys. The inferior goods often are sold at swap meets or on the street at vendors' stands. Universities, music groups, and athletic teams routinely encounter unauthorized uses of their names and logos in connection with inferior quality t-shirts or athletic gear. For example, before game four of the 2000 World Series, Major League Professional Baseball Properties, Inc. seized 15,000 items of unauthorized merchandise that displayed the league's trademarks. Although statutes allow the immediate ...

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