The criticism of precedent in the protection of trademark

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Trademark law consists of legal and specially economic foundations. Thus, the requirement of this assessment related judgments is the awareness of its foundations. The aim of trademark law is facilitating of trade in market and achieving of economic efficiency ,beside the consideration of moral normative. So it's important that the consequence of judgment accords with the ambition of trademark law. Nonetheless, nowadays to what extent judgments are based on foundations? Theses day to what extent judgments fulfill the goals of trademark law? this essay seek to answer to these questions by explanation of the foundations of trademark law and criticizes judgments based on this explanations. This essay indicates courts pay attention to legal foundations more than economic foundations, whilst economic nature trademark should be paid more attention to consideration of economic foundations during adjudication..

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