Is Accumulation of Trademarks a Kind of Unfair Competition or Is It a Good Behavior?
Accumulation of trademarks - a situation when a person registers trademarks, although he or she is not going to make the respective products or provide the respective services - is rather widespread nowadays. Such behavior undoubtedly straitens the activity of other economic agents, who could use the registered trademarks for promotion of their own products or services. How are such conﬂicts settled? In which cases the behavior of the person who accumulates trademarks may be qualiﬁed as wrongful? This article offers answers for these problematic issues.