The Crime of Product Counterfeiting: A Legal Analysis of the Usage of State-Level Statutes
Kari Kammel, Brandon Sullivan and Lorryn Young, 2019 This legal analysis of the state-level trademark counterfeiting criminal enforcement framework in the United States (“U.S.”) scrutinizes the use and non-use of state statutes to prosecute and convict trademark counterfeiters.Relying on state-level appellate court cases and conviction data, we found: (1) states inconsistently use and interpret criminal anticounterfeiting statutes across the …