‘Irene Calboli: Trademarking COVID’

“Irene Calboli, professor of law at Texas A&M University School of Law, has written a new empirical article reporting that ‘the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a veritable tsunami of trademark applications’ for COVID, QUARANTINE, SOCIAL DISTANCING, and other pandemic-related terms. Indeed, Calboli concludes that trademarking of COVID-related terms is unusually rampant, even when compared to past tragedies and disasters such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and Ebola …” (more)

[Camilla Hrdy, Written Description, 27 January]

First posted 2021-01-28 07:33:10

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