Symposium: Most important free speech case in many years
Hugh C. Hansen is a professor of law at Fordham University School of Law. He is the founder and director of the Fordham Conference on IP Law and Policy and the Fordham IP Institute.
Symposium on the court's ruling in Matal v. Tam
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Symposium: Free speech comes to trademark law
Christine Haight Farley is a professor at American University Washington College of Law who teaches intellectual property law. In Matal v. Tam, formerly Lee v. Tam, the court settled certain aspects of First Amendment law while it opened up new issues in trademark law.
Symposium: The First Amendment silences trademark
Ned Snow is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. In Matal v. Tam (formerly called Lee v. Tam), the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act, which prevents registration of marks that employ disparaging names.
Symposium: Increasing First Amendment scrutiny of trademark law after Matal v. Tam
Lisa P. Ramsey is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, and has written about the potential conflict of trademark laws and free speech rights in A Free Speech Right to Trademark Protection? and Increasing First Amendment Scrutiny of Trademark Law.
Symposium: The cacophony of trademarks is not government speech
Irina D. Manta is a professor of law and Founding Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Her trademark and other legal scholarship is available here.
Symposium: The Constitution prohibits government’s “happy-talk” requirement for trademark registration
Caleb R. Trotter is an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed an amicus brief in support of Simon Shiao Tam in the U.S. Supreme Court. Simon Shiao Tam is the leader and bass player of the Portland, Oregon-based dance rock band, The Slants.