Advocacy Group
Enforcement Committee
Advocacy Group
- Anticounterfeiting Committee
- Brand Restrictions Committee
- Copyright Committee
- Data Protection Committee
- Designs Committee
- Emerging Issues Committee
- Enforcement Committee
- Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee
- Geographical Indications Committee
- Harmonization of Trademark Law and Practice Committee
- Indigenous Rights Committee
- International Amicus Committee
- Internet Committee
- Legislation and Regulation Committee
- Non-Traditional Marks Committee
- Parallel Imports Committee
- Right of Publicity Committee
- Trademark Office Practices Committee
- Unfair Competition Committee
Communications Group
Resources Group
- Academic Committee
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
- Brands and Innovation Committee
- Commercialization of Brands Committee
- In-House Practitioners Committee
- INTA Bulletins Committee
- Law Firm Committee
- Leadership Development Committee
- Publications Committee
- Trademark Administrators Committee
- The Trademark Reporter Committee
- Young Practitioners Committee
Mission
The Enforcement Committee develops and advocates our policy on the timely and effective enforcement of trademarks and business identifiers, including through administrative and judicial proceedings. The Committee monitors and analyzes cases, legislation, and regulations in various jurisdictions, proposes trademark enforcement policy recommendations to the Board, evaluates enforcement mechanisms adopted by worldwide jurisdictions, and develops policies to achieve harmonization of enforcement procedures for the best protection of trademark rights. Committee work includes writing reports and submissions, and advocacy in conjunction with relevant committees and staff.
Leadership
Committee Leaders
Chair
Kelly Smith
Intel Corporation
United States
Vice Chair
Mark Biernacki
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Canada
Staff Liaison
Iris Gunther
Highlights
Organized and hosted Judges Workshops in Costa Rica (2016), Ecuador (2017), Paraguay (2017), Colombia (2018), Kenya (2019), and Peru (2019) to advance knowledge of trademark law and procedure
Organized workshops and policy dialogues in Mexico and Guatemala in 2019 on opposition proceedings
Organized events to raise awareness of bad-faith filings, including in China in August 2019 and a virtual webinar in May 2020
Comparative Global Overview of Preliminary Relief
The results are in from the INTA Enforcement Committee’s three-year research project on the global availability and requirements for preliminary injunctions in trademark infringement proceedings.
