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Obituary - Professor Margaret Sophia Moy Llewelyn (1962-2021)

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She made people around her feel comfortable, was kind, funny and very entertaining. Most importantly, in those early days of our careers she was hugely supportive, wonderfully reassuring and full of common-sense. Professor Roger Brownsword, King’s College, London It is nearly thirty years since I first met Margaret.

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Fourteenth Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable: Are Key Trademark and Unfair Competition Doctrines Anachronistic?

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We may be teaching a doctrine modeled on commercial activity that doesn’t take up much of the space of the way people use TMs. Are our doctrinal tools workable for the conflicts that arise? Sometimes it’s our doing: as scholars we sometimes understand things more categorically than courts intend. Brookfield v. Why is that?

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Wishing You All Independence And Equality

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He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

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Does Transformative Matter? No, At Least Where Use Is Commercial

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Happily, the law does not require judges to tan­gle with questions so far beyond our competence. And our only point today is that, while the Foundation may often have a fair-use defense for Mr. Warhol’s work, that does not mean it always will. It will make our world poorer.” ” Id. ” Dissent, at 36.

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IP Reveries: Class 2 (Part 2): Interrogating the I – ‘Intelligence’ in IPR

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We’ve taken a bit of liberty to extend the discussions a bit more than the length of our usual posts to fit in the varied strings of thought we wanted to mention. I didn’t realise how deep-rooted our ignorance could be. After all, our country only allocates 0.7% Class 2 Part 1 is available here. of its GDP towards R&D!

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TM Scholars' Roundable: Session 1: The Relevance of Ornamentality in Trademark Law: Acquisition of Rights

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[RT: I would say lots of courts in © also try to reduce merger to meaning that you can do anything but copy verbatim, which is a narrowing that many courts in TM don’t bother with, though some variants of Rogers v. Robert Burrell: Problem is we rely too much on proxies like how long, how much in sales. Can we make any rules?

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WIPIP: Innovation Theory & TM

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Moving from the folk to the patent/regulated system also strips out the pleasure and the purpose—to fix sick people instead of allowing women freedom to make private choices; becomes public and subject to legislation. Depriving people of benefits that don’t cost anything to provide. Q: drugs v. But should you do that?