Intellectual Property Magazine
Life on Mars?
Withfuture plans for low Earth orbit hotels and cities on the red planet, Clark W Lackert says it is now time to startcreating an outer space trademark regulatory structure
Clark W Lackert, Carlton Fields
It is time. Trademarks off-world have been debated fordecades, but nothing has yet been done, despite humans being in space
for 63years. However, with multiple countries now traveling into outer space, and‘low Earth orbit’
1 (LEO) hotels, together with moon and Mars cities,planned for the near future, a trademark regulatory structure needs to beimplemented
now in order to avoid chaos off the home planet.