Administrative Revocation in Trademark Law

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF TRADEMARKS, Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, Forthcoming

Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-07

19 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2022 Last revised: 25 Jan 2022

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Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Duke University School of Law

Date Written: November 22, 2021

Abstract

Although the use of administrative adjudication as a revocation mechanism U.S. intellectual property law has been well established in trademark law for over 60 years, it is patent law’s more recent, but more frequent, engagement with agency process that has influenced the IP-administrative interface. Much of that influence has borrowed tacitly from trademark practice, and proposals for remaining reform also look to trademark as a template. Now, the cycle is resuming, and theoretical and empirical work on administrative patent revocation offers lessons back to the trademark system for its own future reform. These lessons rest on the court-agency substitution thesis, which favors administrative process over judicial process in revoking vested IP rights primarily on the basis of agency expertise and access. This book chapter sketches out an agency for analytical, empirical, and normative exploration of court-agency substitution in trademark revocation.

Keywords: trademark, patent, intellectual property, revocation, court, agency, USPTO, administrative, adjudication

Suggested Citation

Vishnubhakat, Saurabh, Administrative Revocation in Trademark Law (November 22, 2021). RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF TRADEMARKS, Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, Forthcoming, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-07, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4001072

Saurabh Vishnubhakat (Contact Author)

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Duke University School of Law

Durham, NC

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