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Concurrent Session Two:
Copyright and Trademark

Moderator: Jeffrey Samuels, Sausalito, CA

• Fan Fiction and IP Rights - Dale Nelson, Donaldson + Califf, LLP, Culver City, CA
• First Amendment Challenges to Trademark Laws after Tam and Brunetti - Lisa Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA
• Failure to Function, Aesthetically Functional, and Merely Ornamental Went Into a Bar…. A new attack on questionable trademarks? - Sean Garrison, Bacal & Garrison Law Group, Scottsdale, AZ

Speakers

• Ramsey, Lisa

  University of San Diego School of Law | Professor

  Professor Lisa Ramsey teaches intellectual property classes at the University of San Diego School of Law and is an expert on trademark law. Before joining the USD law faculty, she was an intellectual property litigator at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in San Diego.
• Samuels, Jeffrey

  The University of Akron School of Law | Professor Emeritus

  Mr. Samuels is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Akron School of Law. Mr. Samuels currently serves as an expert witness and consultant in trademark matters and as a panelist under various domain name dispute procedures.
• Nelson, Dale

  Donaldson + Callif | Partner

  Dale is a partner at Donaldson + Callif, a boutique firm that specializes in documentary and independent film production, clearance and fair use, championing the free speech rights of filmmakers, podcasters and other artists to tell their stories, their way.
• Garrison, Sean

  Bacal & Garrison Law Group | Partner

  Sean Garrison is a named partner with Bacal & Garrison Law Group, a Scottsdale, Arizona law firm that focuses in the areas of trademark and copyright law.