Next Monday at the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting I will debate attorney Megan Bannigan about trademark dilution law, including whether this law banning nonconfusing uses of famous trademarks is consistent with the right to freedom of expression. Please join us!

I’m excited to announce that I will debate Megan Bannigan about trademark dilution law at the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in San Diego at 230 pm on May 19. If you know my scholarship, you can guess that I am against the resolution. I hope you can join us!

Thanks to Cyrill Rigamonti and his wonderful PhD students at the University of Bern for hosting me in Bern last week and to the students for great comments on my presentation about trademark and free speech law when I gave a lecture on this topic in Prof. Rigamonti’s class. I had a great visit!

Thanks to Martin Senftleben and the rest of the faculty and staff at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam @uvalawschool.bsky.social for hosting me last week and asking me to talk about trademark law. They asked great questions and I had fun exploring the city.

Thanks to everyone who came to our Comic-Con panel “Comic Book Law School 303: AI, Spec Scripts and Fan Fiction, Free Speech vs. Trademark Rights, and Other Hot Topics”, where I talked about the Supreme Court’s Elster decision. For my thoughts on Elster, see: blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Last night I attended the Sting/Billy Joel concert in San Diego with my good friend and colleague Miranda Perry Fleischer. In between the singers’ excellent performances, we discovered the Dean of USD law and other USD colleagues were there too. Fun times. USD law rocks!

Thanks to UNLV Dean Leah Chan Grinvald for hosting a fun and informative trademark conference at UNLV on Feb 22-24, and to my family who joined me to see the amazing U2 show at the Sphere on Saturday night.

Thanks again to Jim Gibson and Chris Cotropia for inviting me to be part of Richmond law school’s Evil Twin Debate series. Also thanks to my Evil Twin Jake Linford and our audience. Video of the debate will be posted here soon: law.richmond.edu/academics/ce...

Thanks to WorldIPReview for inviting me to speak about trademarks and free speech yesterday at #WIPRTrademarksNA. I learned a lot from the other presentations and enjoyed chatting with the trademark attorneys at the event. Sorry to miss it today but I have to teach my classes!