What a treat to be there for Justice Breyer to receive the NYU Law David Boies Prize

Excited 2B at Penn for the annual Trademark & Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable, where I’m sharing new work w/ Barton Beebe & Stein on “Trademark Law’s Theory of the Image: A Computational & Empirical Analysis.” Thanks to @profrothman.bsky.social @rtushnet.bsky.social & Barton 4 organizing!

Excited to be at @umichlaw.bsky.social to present new work on “Trade Secret Societies” 🤐 Ⓜ️

Interesting IPSC project by @sarimazzurco.bsky.social (forthcoming in Michigan Law Review) on the use of trademarks by unions, with a lovely shoutout to our shared home neighborhood of Flatbush

Enjoying ISHTIP’s 16th annual workshop in Madrid, this year on intellectual property and capitalism, where I’ll be talking about Vinicius Bogea Camara’s provocative paper on “Indiffernce and Saturarion: The Dilemma of Brands in Search or a Consumer.” Some highlights so far ishtip.org/wp-content/u...

Well, that’s another type of designer (eye) bag 👁️ 👛 www.dior.com/en_us/beauty...

When in Dallas… 🤠 (for a conference at SMU where I’m discussing IP and fashion 👗) Big hair not pictured 👩🏻‍🦱

What a treat to host today's Respectfully Dissent installment featuring my @nyulaw.bsky.social colleagues @cjsprigman.bsky.social and @weissmann11.bsky.social debating the TikTok ban: a legal congressional policy or an abridgment of our First Amendment rights

Here are the US PTO's examples of Scottish women in a trademark:

And here's one fun slide from the talk about the few types of designs that haven't been claimed for apparel marks (Scottish women, tobacco pouches, valves, ...)

Excited to be at the IP & Ski Conference in Vail to present the most notable decisions this past year in copyright, where I got to talk about litigation involving these works, among others

The patent wizard we always knew Rochelle Dreyfuss is 🪄 @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.bsky.social

Here's a new-ish paper on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System," forthcoming in California Law Review by @markpmckenna.bsky.social & me papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My lecture last year on "Trademark Ownfringement” at National University of Singapore (EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Distinguished Visitor in Intellectual Property Lecture) is now published in Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. Read abt Oscar Mayer bologna-inspired face masks, Fendace, & more