“Working Papers” Conferences

Posted on August 15th, 2007 by William McGeveran

Mike Madison has an excellent thoughtful post at Madisonian, which in turn triggered excellent thoughtful comments, about the virtues and vices of the “working paper” conference in legal academia, specifically intellectual property law. As a very junior scholar preparing to attend my first of these, I found it all very enlightening.

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Filed under: Copyright, Law School, Patents, Scholarship, Trademarks

When the Law Forces You to Sue

Posted on August 15th, 2007 by William McGeveran

I chuckled when I saw the headline on this AP story in my local St. Paul newspaper last week: Red Cross Sued for Using Red Cross. It’s often pretty easy to make trademark law look silly. (I know because I’ve spent all summer writing an article about it — coming soon to an articles editor [...]

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Filed under: civil procedure, Media, Scholarship, Trademarks