Brand owners are increasingly waging battles to protect their source-identifying trademarks in the United States. According to research from CompuMark, 85% of brands experienced trademark infringement in 2019, which was up from 81% in 2018 and 74% in 2017. Three quarters of the respondents who experienced trademark infringement in 2019 filed lawsuits to enforce their rights. 40% of those who filed a trademark infringement lawsuit spent between $50,000 and $249,000 to resolve the matter. Many of those trademark holders spent much greater amounts in the litigation than they recovered.