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for trademark infringement6. the squatter for abandoning,
Then the trademark squatter reassigning, or licensing the
may demand a heavy price trademark8. In order to clarify
from the trademark owner this phenomenon practically,
to abandon, reassign, or li- we must shed light on the
cense the trademark to stop subject of trademark squat-
using his trademark7. ting, and Practical cases as
follow:
It may be possible for the
brand owner to get the in- A. subject of trademark
tellectual property office or squatting:
a civil court to cancel the
trademark, but this is costly World Intellectual Prop-
and may involve consider- erty Organization (WIPO)
able delay and legal as well has defined Trademark
as commercial uncertainty. squatting as the registra-
tion or use of a well-known
As a result, the trademark trademark that is not regis-
tered in the country which
owner may be willing to pay has pirated the mark or is
invalid as a result of non-
6 Carsten Fink, Christian Helmers, use9.
and Carlos Ponce “Trademarks squat- On the other hand, there
ters: Evidence from Chile” Econom- are many definitions of
ic Research Working Paper No. 22, trademark squatting, not
WIPO Economics & Statistics Series,
September 2014, P. 3. 8 Carsten Fink, and others, opcit, P. 1.
9 Archi Bhatia, op.cit.
7 Archi Bhatia “The dirty truth about
trademark piracy” Article published
on May 15, 2018, updated on: Thu
Sep 05, 2019. Available at: https://
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