Pirate Party Declaration of Principles/2.0/Trademarks

by Pirate Party Sweden

The Importance of Trademarks

Consumers have a rightful need to know what they buy and companies have a need to protect their trademarks in order to compete fairly. There is a strong public interest here that we wish to address. We aim to strenghten trademark protections between companies somewhat while allowing more lenience in situations like consumer critic and satire. This is designed as an incentive for corporations to take good care of their customers and trademarks as well as strenghtening the consumer's power.

We aim to both strengthen trademark protection and the consumers' right to criticize them.