Research and analysis

Trade mark cluttering

An exploratory report examining the problem of 'cluttering' of trade mark registers.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Published: 19 April 2012

Documents

Trade mark cluttering: an exploratory report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-908908-29-2

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Details

The report consists of two parts:

• the first presents a conceptual discussion of ‘cluttering’ of trade mark registers
• the second part provides an exploratory empirical analysis of trade mark applications at the Intellectual Property Office and the European Trade Mark Office
• this part contains results of a descriptive and an econometric analysis

Authors: Georg von Graevenitz, Christine Greenhalgh, Christian Helmers and Philipp Schautschick

Published 19 April 2012