> 5. Organizations primarily concerned with the interests of trademark owners
>
> Definition: An organization representing trademark interests, defined
> as entities primarily concerned with trademarks or defending
> business against counterfeiting.
It is "interesting" that interest in trademark is considered to be those
who wish to expand the role of marks.
However, it is equally true that those who wish to limit marks to their
legal scope have just as much an interest in trademarks ... just from the
other side of the equation.
It's sort of like defining a "safe food council" as being those interested
in producing safe food but excluding those people who eat that food.
Conterfeiting only says that one is using a mark in contravention to the
legitimate scope of the mark.
What this definition is implying to me is a colored use of the word to
imply that one who opposes the extention of a mark beyond its legitimate
scope is a "counterfeiter".
One could say with equal pejoritivity that a mark owner who asserts
his/her mark beyond the legitimate scope of that mark is a thief of
common/public property.
--karl--
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