CHICAGO - The International Trademark Association annual meeting continues to grow. This year, more than 8,524 practitioners, academics, and members of the press have gathered at the gigantic McCormick Place convention center in Chicago to schmooze and and stay on the cutting edge of trademark law. According to the INTA Daily News account, INTA’s 129th annual meeting is being attended by 3,584 from the United States, 488 from the United Kingdom, 370 from Canada, 294 from Germany, and 271 from France. Mexico, Japan, Australia, India, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, the Netherlands, Sweden, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Singapore round out the top 20 most represented countries. In all, attentdees from 140 countries are here. It seems shocking that there are this many of us all in one place.