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Why “bad things” are affecting trade mark functionality

February 14, 2012

J Thomas McCarthy, author of the seminal trade mark treatise McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, told an audience of trade mark professionals on Thursday that “some bad things are happening among judges” on the topic of trade mark functionality

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