>>Strict trademark rulings don't hurt everyone in our community. They prevent big corporations from steamrolling over small businesses.

Yep. My company recently caught a very large software vendor using our registered trademark slogan in their ads. After a lengthy court process, we were able to force them to license it. If it wasn't for trademark law, they would be benefiting from intellectual property we came up with, and as a much smaller company we would be powerless to stop them.