New on-brand office artwork ™️📜🖼️ @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.org

Congratulations to @jeannefromer.bsky.social, who will receive Barnard College's Award for Distinction for alumnae. Fromer was honored both for her excellence in personifying the ideals of a liberal arts education, and for her widely influential work in intellectual property law.

Ugh. New evidence that LLMs' sycophancy is degrading humanity news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

Design patent rejections are skyrocketing. Our latest analysis shows §102 rejections have jumped sevenfold since 2008, with Amazon listings now dominating as prior art. Read how e-commerce is reshaping design patent prosecution on Patently-O.

I'm so grateful to Troy for his excellent moral leadership over the past few years!

Upcoming event with @nyuengelberg.org! Community Forum on HIV Care & Prevention with candidates for NY12! Join me, @prep4allnow.bsky.social's Jeremiah Johnson & candidates for a conversation on protecting and expanding PrEP access and strengthening HIV infrastructure. Thursday May 14 10 am-noon!

Thanks to @hls.harvard.edu Harvard Law Bulletin for coverage of my new book “Fashion and Intellectual Property” with David Tan & Dev Gangjee, alongside new books by fellow Harvard Law alums Michelle Obama, Imani Perry, Tim Wu, Justin Driver, Edward Larson, &Josh Blank hls.harvard.edu/today/hls-au...

I’m grateful to have served as faculty on FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics)’s 2026 Ethics Abroad Travel Program to Berlin and Poland www.faspe-ethics.org/ethics-abroa...

@markpmckenna.bsky.social and I have an opinion essay in Communications of the ACM on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System." Glad to distill and frame our work for computer science professionals. Thanks to @jtlg.bsky.social for providing the opportunity! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Please wear “a yellow and green dragon suit with a blue cummerbund”—and not “pink formal dress ‘tails’ with knicker trousers” and “a typical diplomat’s sash”—in his honor

Wonderful to give a faculty workshop today at Cornell Law School on trademark law, images, and AI 🐻❤️™️ @cornelllaw.bsky.social

Washington Square News interview with me about NYU Law and fashion law nyunews.com/culture/bsty... @nyulaw.bsky.social

I'm delighted that my article "First Ideas" is now published in the Georgetown Law Journal @georgetownlaw.bsky.social www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...

Interesting data from @denniscrouch.bsky.social shedding light on gender and ethnicity of U.S. patent inventors patentlyo.com/patent/2026/...

Trademark folks should do the New York Times Strands puzzle today Strands #749 “Trademarked no more” 🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵 www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Hey @jeannefromer.bsky.social & @cjsprigman.bsky.social, if you're ever looking for a new casebook case about scènes à faire/tropes, this one might be worth considering.

David Tan (NUS) launched our "Fashion and Intellectual Property" book (with Dev Gangjee (Oxford)) at the National Museum of Singapore with a talk and a donation of 82 designer jackets (valued at over $350K) to the museum law.nus.edu.sg/ewbclb/media...

You may have noticed that when you ask an AI chatbot to evaluate ideas, it often starts with enthusiasm. And when you criticize its enthusiasm, it drops the enthusiasm. I asked Claude (Sonnet 4.6 extended) why it did this, and it had this reply—not news, but worth emphasizing.

SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS. Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.

I've just posted a draft of my new article on "Trade Secret Societies," which is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review @uclalawreview.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Because keeping secrets together help people form bonds with each other, maybe the very act of having shared secret information can incentivize innovation. -- @jeannefromer.bsky.social #wipip26

trade secret societies! @jeannefromer.bsky.social #wipip26 the psychology & sociology of secrecy are at the core of what's being protected by TS law but the law hasn't done much grappling with it

I’m excited to be at WIPIP at @bulaw.bsky.social today, where I’ll be talking about “Trade Secret Societies” (and I plan to be posting the paper draft very shortly)

If you're in Boston, please come hear me talk today at Northeastern about influencer law, memes, and copyright with Alex Roberts, Victoria Schwartz, and Stacey Lantagne

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...