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Testing for Trademark Dilution in Court and the Lab
Barton Beebe
John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law, New York University School of Law.

The authors thank Jamie Boyle, Chris Buccafusco, Alex Cadmus, Shari Diamond, Michael Frakes, Jeanne Fromer, John Golden, Scott Hemphill, Marco Kleine, Stephan Tontrup, and Deepa Varadarajan; and participants in workshops at the New York UniversitySchool of Law, the Duke University School of Law, the St. John’s University School of Law, the 2017 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference hosted by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the 2018 Munich Summer Institute hosted at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and the Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology Workshop hosted by the University of Texas at Austin School of Law for helpful comments and conversations. Thanks also to the Filomen D’Agostino and Max E. Greenberg Research Fund for grants that supported this work, and to Ari Lipsitz for excellent research assistance.

Roy Germano
Senior Research Scholar, New York University School of Law.
Christopher Jon Sprigman
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
Joel H. Steckel
Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean for Doctoral Education, New York University Stern School of Business.
Trademark dilution is among the most elusive concepts in intellectual property law.