Professor Jeremy Sheff spoke on a patent law panel at the Hon. William C. Conner Inn of Court.
Read MoreSubotnik Presents on Digital Replica Rights
Professor Eva Subotnik recently presented her latest paper at the 25th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, this year held in Chicago and hosted by DePaul College of Law (August 7-8th).
Read MoreSheff Publishes "Dividing Trademark Use" in Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts; Presents Paper at Several Law Schools
Professor Jeremy Sheff’s article, Dividing Trademark Use, has been published by the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, and he has presented it at several law schools.
Read MoreSheff 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:
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.
Sheff and Subotnik Present at NYU
Professor Jeremy Sheff and Professor Eva Subotnik, who are the Faculty Directors of the St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center (IPLC), presented their papers on January 12th at the Fourteenth Annual NYU Tri-State Region IP Workshop.
Read MoreSubotnik Addresses Nassau County Bar Association
On December 19th, Professor Eva Subotnik addressed the Nassau County Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Committee in Mineola.
Read MoreSubotnik 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.”
Read MoreSubotnik Article Reviewed in JOTWELL
Professor Eva Subotnik’s article, Copyright’s Capacity Gap, 57 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming Dec. 2023), co-authored with Professor Andrew Gilden (Willamette), was just reviewed in JOTWELL, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots).
Read MoreSheff Presents at M3 IP Workshop at Miami Law School
On May 20, 2023, Professor Jeremy Sheff was invited to present excerpts from his book project, Valuing Progress, at the M3 1P Workshop at Miami Law School.
Read MoreSubotnik’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.
Read MoreSheff Presents at University of Pennsylvania School of Law
On October 7, Professor Jeremy Sheff was invited to present his work-in-progress, Reverse Confusion and the Justification for Trademark Protection, at the 1st Annual Trademark and Unfair Competition Roundtable at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Read MoreSubotnik Publishes on Posthumous Art and Presents on Britney Spears
Professor Eva Subotnik’s book chapter, “Dead-Hand Guidance: A Preferable Testamentary Approach for Artists,” has been published in Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market: The Afterlife of Art, co-edited by Sharon Hecker and Peter J. Karol (Routledge, 2022).
Read MoreIPLC Inaugurates New York City IP Law and Philosophy Workshop
IPLC Faculty Director Professor Jeremy Sheff has inaugurated a new workshop series: The New York City Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop.
Read MoreSheff Publishes "The Canada Trademarks Dataset" in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
IPLC Faculty Director Professor Jeremy Sheff has published his latest article, The Canada Trademarks Dataset, in the peer-reviewed Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Read MoreSubotnik Presents Forthcoming Book Chapter
Professor Eva Subotnik presented her forthcoming book chapter, Dead-Hand Guidance: A Preferable Testamentary Approach for Artists, at the annual IP Scholars Conference, hosted virtually this year by Cardozo School of Law.
Read MoreSubotnik Quoted in The New Yorker Magazine
Professor Eva Subotnik was interviewed for an article published this week on The New Yorker magazine’s website.
Read MoreSheff Releases New Trademark Registration Dataset
PLC Faculty Director Professor Jeremy Sheff today released an open-access dataset of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s trademark registry dating back to 1865.
Read MoreSubotnik Presents at IPSC in Chicago
Last week, Professor Eva Subotnik presented her paper, The Fine Art of Rummaging: Successors and the Life Cycle of Copyright, at the annual IP Scholars Conference (IPSC), hosted this year by DePaul College of Law.
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