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> trademark is supposed to work that way - you lose it if you don’t actively enforce it That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true. From an article
by pacificmint 6y ago
> trademark is supposed to work that way - you lose it if you don’t actively enforce it
That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true.
From an article by the EFF:
> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies-tirelessly-censor-internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...