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> It is absolutely untrue that you risk losing a mark if you do not enforce it widely. There is an obligation to enforce against third party uses which would undermine the distinctiveness of the mark/confuse the public, however not every third party use falls in this category.

Actually you only have to enforce it in the cases where someone else might argue undermines your trademark, which is far wider.



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