Sheff Speaks at University College London

On February 26th, Professor Jeremy Sheff spoke at the Annual Brand Seminar of the University College London Institute of Brand & Innovation Law. The seminar, entitled “Beyond Transactions; Beyond Jurisdictions: Post-sale Confusion and Targeting,” brought together academics, judges, and lawyers to discuss recent developments in UK trademark law through comparative analysis of US and EU law.

Professor Sheff delivered remarks on the historical development of the concept of post-sale confusion in US trademark law, and its contrast with trademark infringement doctrines in the EU, as background for exploration of post-Brexit developments in UK trademark law.

Video of the panel is available below:

Video of Professor Sheff’s remarks at the University College London Annual Brand Seminar.

Sheff Presents at Harvard Law School

On Saturday, October 19th, Professor Jeremy Sheff’s forthcoming paper, Dividing Trademark Use, was workshopped at the Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable at Harvard Law School. The paper, which analyzes the implications for trademark law of the Supreme Court’s two recent decisions in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC and Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., will be published in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts.

Sheff Invited to Present at Houston Law Center Symposium

On June 8, 2024, Professor Jeremy Sheff was invited to present at the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law Annual Symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His symposium paper, “An Empirical Evaluation of the Trademark Modernization Act,” reports the contents of an original dataset he constructed to analyze a new family of administrative proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Subotnik Presents Article at 2023 IP Mosaic Conference

On October 28th, Professor Eva Subotnik presented her article, Copyright’s Capacity Gap, 57 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming Dec. 2023), co-authored with Professor Andrew Gilden (Willamette), at the 2023 IP Mosaic Conference. As described on the conference website, “[e]ach IP Mosaic Conference is typically organized around a specific IP social justice legal issue, policy, or socio-economic challenge.”

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Subotnik’s Article Accepted by U.C. Davis Law Review and Penn Roundtable

Professor Eva Subotnik’s newest article, “Copyright’s Capacity Gap,” has been accepted for publication in the U.C. Davis Law Review. Co-authored with Willamette University College of Law Professor Andrew Gilden, the paper considers the broader copyright law implications of the Britney Spears conservatorship and ways the law might better protect vulnerable creators.

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