I will be presenting my recent work on AI Influencers as part of a wonderful panel next week on "Influencer Law" at Northeastern with @lexlanham.bsky.social, @jeannefromer.bsky.social and moderated by @staceylantagne.bsky.social. Would love to see Boston friends law.northeastern.edu/event/influe...

Great symposium today organized by @uclalawreview.bsky.social & Xiyin Tang on Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism, where I'm moderating a panel on antitrust & IP with @marklemley.bsky.social, Xiyin Tang, @madhavisunder.bsky.social, and @rtushnet.bsky.social www.uclalawreview.org/ucla-law-rev...

Nice write-up of @nyulaw.bsky.social’s @democracyproject.bsky.social launched by Sam Issacharoff, @rickpildes.bsky.social, and Bob Bauer nyunews.com/news/2026/02...

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It's a Vogue eat Dogue world indeed! @airmail.news Air Mail story in which I am quoted discussing a trademark case involving these two magazines airmail.news/issues/2026-...

From @scholasticahq.bsky.social. Fess up, who submitted the 216,621-word article?

At sunny Santa Clara for a conference on How It Started, How It’s Going in intellectual property, and speaking on how IP is going and what’s gone right in trademark law under the Lanham Act

It's true! I'm delighted to announce my latest project (with @simonandschuster.bsky.social), "The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader." In bookstores in May, but preorder yours now (maybe get one for your favorite federal official? It makes a great gift!).

Loving this fantastic Willy Wonka Lego set I now have in my @nyulaw.bsky.social office to go with the 2 intellectual property articles I’ve written about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

Actually more like 1986, but you get the point 👧

Nice writeup (with full video) of a recent @nyulaw.bsky.social Respectfully Dissent session on originalism that I led with Mike McConnell v. @narosenblum.bsky.social www.law.nyu.edu/news/respect...

Thrilled to be co-hosting with Barton Beebe the 16th Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop at @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at @nyulaw.bsky.social www.nyuengelberg.org/events/tri-s...

Thanks to Wissam Bentazar for this generous book review at The IPKat of "Fashion and Intellectual Property," my new book with David Tan and Dev Gangjee. ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

Let's give a warm welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Nice Classification NCL(13-2026)! nclpub.wipo.int/enfr/

Happy Public Domain Day, with Betty Boop, Marx Brothers films, some Agatha Christie, and more entering the public domain! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

When the government queries a massive database containing the information of hundreds of millions of people, how broad of a search occurs? And can the government even get a warrant to search that much? I take that on in a forthcoming article, draft here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pan & Xiao on the Hidden Costs of Gift Giving Xiaofei Pan and Erte Xiao (George Mason University - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences) have posted It's Not Just the Thought that Counts: An Experimental Study on Hidden Cost of Giving…

Fascinating discussion on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City about trademark law this past week. Angie had insulted Brittany last season that she had "high body count hair," a phrase that then achieved some notoriety. On this week's episode, Brittany stated that she "trademarked HIGH BODY COUNT"

Looking for last minute gifts for the legal nerds on your holiday list? You can’t go wrong with any one of these books by NYU Law faculty including @jeannefromer.bsky.social:

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Here's a synopsis of everything @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, which I co-direct, did this year, from our symposium on consumers and innovation policy to events on patent law and pharma, social media design, and law and AI www.nyuengelberg.org/files/engelb...

What a tremendous loss. May Bill Nelson's memory be a blessing legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/will...

Thank you to KAIST for a great workshop in Seoul on legal challenges in the AI era with @nyuengelberg.org. Thanks to all of the academics and judges who joined!

Thank you KAIST for hosting our Legal Challenges in the AI Era workshop! @jeannefromer.bsky.social, @michaelweinberg.org, @sbenthall.bsky.social, & Florencia Marotta-Wurgler are representing NYU in Seoul

Today is publication day for my new book "Fashion and Intellectual Property," which I co-edited with David Tan and Dev Gangjee for Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Encouraging copyright folks to attend next week's @copyrightsociety.bsky.social Brace Lecture, offering an opportunity to hear Scott Martin, a Hollywood veteran & most recently at Paramount Pictures, talk abt clashes between copyright law & cultural heritage laws copyrightsociety.org/event/2025-d...

Thank you to @narosenblum.bsky.social and Mike McConnell for a wonderful @nyulaw.bsky.social Respectfully Dissent session on originalism. Discover why West Virginia might be unconstitutional, hear what McConnell describes as his rabbi sermon, and more m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWM...

Below the line of the 1st page of Professor Dan Burk's last article, just published posthumously by the UC Irvine Law Review.

Today is publication day for my new book "Fashion and Intellectual Property," which I co-edited with David Tan and Dev Gangjee for Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

I’m excited to be at Emory @emorylaw.bsky.social today to give a faculty workshop on new work with Barton Beebe and Stein on trademark law and images, with empirical and computational analysis 🖼️™️

What a treat to be there for Justice Breyer to receive the NYU Law David Boies Prize

Great @jotwell.bsky.social piece by @rtushnet.bsky.social reviewing Dustin Marlan's piece on trade dress in the Supreme Court (and the mysterious tertium quid) cyber.jotwell.com/distinguishi...

Congratulations to @jeannefromer.bsky.social for being named Vice Dean of University Partnerships at NYU Law! Fear not Engelverse, that new title won't stop her from being a Center Co-Director as well

Should Inspectors General be moved to the Legislative Branch? Jason Powell from @citizensforethics.org makes the case for why doing so may be the only way to protect independent oversight. www.justsecurity.org/122832/shoul...

First time I’m seeing a Spotify playlist put together for a law review article (here, on jazz and the § 115 compulsory music reproduction license). Can this become a trend? scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Thrilled for the next 2 days with @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center, exploring the consumer across IP, antitrust, and tech law, including sustainability, the consumer scientist, IP rights as signal to consumers, AI, fair use, and competition www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...

Excited 2B at Penn for the annual Trademark & Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable, where I’m sharing new work w/ Barton Beebe & Stein on “Trademark Law’s Theory of the Image: A Computational & Empirical Analysis.” Thanks to @profrothman.bsky.social @rtushnet.bsky.social & Barton 4 organizing!

Perhaps not surprising that 2 of these covers are at the center of well-known copyright infringement lawsuits www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Obsessed with Jodie Turner-Smith's Schiaparelli technology dress www.gofugyourself.com/tron-ares-ha...

Great Jotwell post by @graemedinwoodie.bsky.social on Michael Goodyear's article "Common-Law Notice and Takedown" ip.jotwell.com/the-future-o...

Professor Oren Bar-Gill rejoins the faculty at NYU Law this fall. Bar-Gill’s pioneering research explores how bounded rationality and cognitive biases shape contractual decision-making, particularly in consumer markets: ow.ly/jbcw50WXykF

@cmorten.bsky.social returns to NYU Law this fall. He brings with him the Science, Health, and Information Clinic, which provides legal services to researchers, patients, consumer groups, and others in the health and science space: ow.ly/gcj550X1EkL

Was it even a question that I needed to buy this? I'm excited to build this for my office and have a working chocolate waterfall and mini Oompa-Loompas (and maybe write a 3rd piece of scholarship on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? 🤔First 2 pieces are linked below) www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

NERDS sues DWEEBS for trademark & trade dress infringement, dilution, & false advertising ferrara, maker of nerds, owns registrations for not only the nerds word marks, logos, & packaging trade dress but also the "pebble design" of the candy itself pdfserver.amlaw.com/legalradar/p...

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Excited to be at @umichlaw.bsky.social to present new work on “Trade Secret Societies” 🤐 Ⓜ️

Thrilled that my article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System" is now out in the California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social

Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion to settle the copyright infringement lawsuit against it by authors, following Judge Alsup's fair use ruling this summer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...