John Welch blogs about a precedental TTAB case holding that Section 44 of the Lanham Act doesn’t create a ‘famous marks’ cause of action here. He reproduces an email I sent to the INTA listserv, suggesting that maybe the Us should amend its act to include a cause of action that US companies have utilized abroad, specifically a cause of action relating to the intentional adoption of a mark that is famous to the US public, even if said mark is not in use in the US.