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Lisa Pondrom Ramsey Professor of Law University of San Diego School of Law
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110-2492
619-260-7977
lramsey@sandiego.edu
Lisa Ramsey is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where she teaches and writes
in the areas of intellectual property and international intellectual property. Before joining the faculty in 2004, she
was an intellectual property litigation associate for four years at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper) in San
Diego. She graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law and was a judicial law clerk for Judge Rebecca Beach
Smith of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia. Professor Ramsey’s current scholarship and research
focuses on the potential conflict between trademark and free speech rights in national and international laws.
Her article Free Speech and International Obligations to Protect
Trademarks was published in the Yale Journal of International Law in 2010. Professor Ramsey has also
recently written about the unauthorized use of trademarks on sites such as Facebook or Twitter in Brandjacking on Social Networks: Trademark Infringement by Impersonation of Markholders, which
was published in the Buffalo Law Review as part of a symposium on Advertising and the Law. In spring 2011, she was a
visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne and did research on Australian trademark and free speech law. Her book
review of Australian Trade Mark Law was published
by the Media & Arts Law Review in 2011. Professor Ramsey's other recent publications include the law review articles Increasing First Amendment Scrutiny of Trademark Law, 61 SMU L. Rev. 381 (2008); Intellectual Property Rights
in Advertising, 12 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 189 (2006), and the book chapter First Amendment Limitations on Trademark Rights in volume three of Intellectual Property
and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age 147 (Peter Yu ed. 2007). Her article Descriptive Trademarks and the First Amendment, 70 Tenn. L. Rev. 1095
(2003), was judged by the editor of the Intellectual Property Law Review (Karen B. Tripp ed., 2004) to be one of the best
intellectual property law review articles of 2003. An abbreviated version of her CV is below.
Associate Professor of Law, 2006 to 2009
Assistant Professor of Law, 2004 to 2006
Courses: Trademark
Law, Intellectual Property Survey, International Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Seminar Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Visiting Scholar Feb. & Mar. 2011
Law
Offices of Lisa P. Ramsey
San Diego, CA
2003 to 2004
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper)
Associate in Intellectual Property Litigation Group
San Diego, CA
1997 to 2002
United States
District Court
Eastern District of Virginia
Judicial
Law Clerk for the
Hon. Rebecca Beach Smith
Norfolk, VA
1996 to 1997
EDUCATION
UCLA School
of Law
J.D.
1996
Order of the Coif, UCLA Law Review
UCLA
B.A.
1993
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, UCLA Advertising Club PUBLICATIONS
Book Review:
Australian Trade Mark Law by Robert Burrell and Michael Handler,
16 Media & Arts Law Review 218 (2011)
Predicting the Unpredictable under Rule 11(b)(3): When are Allegations “Likely”
to Have Evidentiary Support? 43 UCLA L. Rev. 1393
(1996) PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Mechanisms for Limiting Trade Mark Rights to Further Competition and Free Speech (with
coauthor Jens Schovsbo) - Presentation, First International Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Marquette
University Law School (April 27, 2012)
An Impersonation
Theory of Trademark Law - Presentation, Second Internet Law Works-in-Progress Symposium, New York Law
School (March 23, 2012)
- Presentation, 2012 Works-In-Progress
Intellectual Property Colloquium, University of Houston (Feb. 20, 2012)
Commentator,
UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, UCLA School of Law (Nov. 6, 2011)
(invited commentator on paper Looking at the Lanham Act: Images in Trademark and Advertising Law by Rebecca Tushnet)
Presentation, Hot Topics in Trademark Law for Non-IP Attorneys, California State Bar Annual Meeting,
Long Beach, CA (Sept. 17, 2011) Presentation, What the United States Can Learn
From Australian Trade Mark Law, Eleventh Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul
University College of Law (Aug. 12, 2011)
Panelist, Technology,
Social Media, and Liminal IP, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (June 5, 2011) How Trademark
Law Harms Free Speech and What To Do About It - Presentation, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia (March 22, 2011)
- Presentation, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (March 11,
2011)
Brandjacking on Social Networks: Trademark Infringement
by Impersonation of Markholders(formerly titled Brandjacking on Social Networks: Confusion About the Source of Information
or Advertising) - Presentation, Baker & McKenzie, Sydney, Australia (March 17,
2011)
- Presentation, Baker & McKenzie, Melbourne, Australia (March 15, 2011)
- Presentation, Boston Intellectual Property Colloquium, Boston College Law School (April 26, 2010)
- Presentation, Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School (March 27,
2010)
- Guest Speaker, IP Innovations in Science and Technology Seminar,
University of Washington School of Law (Nov. 16, 2009)
- Presentation, Advertising
and the Law Conference, co-sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the University of Buffalo Law
School (Nov. 13, 2009)
- Presentation, Ninth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University (Aug. 6, 2009)
- Presentation, 2009
International Workshop on Copyright Industries and Intellectual Property, South China University of Technology School
of Law, Guangzhou, China (June 15, 2009)
- Presentation, The Age of Digital Convergence: An East-West Dialogue
on Law, Media and Technology, The University of Hong Kong (June 13, 2009)
Presentation, Free Speech and Trademarks,
Conference on Fundamental Rights and Private Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (May 31, 2010)
Free Speech and International Obligations
to Protect Trademarks - Faculty Colloquium, University of San Diego School of Law (April 17, 2009)
- Presentation, Seventh Annual Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium, co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent
College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law (April 7, 2009)
- Presentation,
2008 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Tulane Law School (Oct. 4, 2008)
- Presentation, Eighth
Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School (Aug. 8, 2008)
Commentator, User-Generated Content, Social Networking,
and Virtual Worlds, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN (Nov. 14-15, 2008) (invited commentator on two papers)
Panelist, Intellectual Property vs. the First Amendment, Annual Intellectual Property Institute, State
Bar of California Intellectual Property Law Section, Palm Dessert, CA (Nov. 8, 2008)
Increasing First Amendment Scrutiny of Trademark Law - Faculty Colloquium, Hofstra Law School (April 14, 2008)
- Faculty Colloquium, University of San Diego School of Law (Feb. 8, 2008)
- Presentation, Trademark
Dilution: Theoretical and Empirical Inquiries Symposium, Santa Clara University School of Law (Oct. 5, 2007)
- Presentation, 2007 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Washington College
of Law at American University (Sept. 28, 2007)
Presentation,
What If There Were No First Amendment Distinction Between Commercial and Noncommercial Speech: Would Trademark Law Be
Constitutional?, Fourth Annual Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program Symposium "What Ifs
and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Stories," Michigan State University College of Law (Mar. 31,
2007)
Intellectual Property Rights in Advertising - Presentation, 2005 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, co-sponsored by Washington
University School of Law and St. Louis University School of Law (Oct. 7, 2005)
- Faculty Colloquium,
University of San Diego School of Law (Sept. 23, 2005)
- Presentation, Fifth
Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University (Aug. 12, 2005)
- Presentation, Second Annual Intellectual Property and Communications Law and
Policy Scholars Roundtable, Michigan State University College of Law (Feb. 18, 2005)
MEDIA APPEARANCES Jeff John Roberts, Rupert Murdoch's Wife Won't Get Twitter Handle Back Any Time Soon, paidContent: The Economics
of Digital Content (Jan. 4, 2012)
Social Work: How Can Brands Get The Most Out of Twitter, World Intellectual Property Review 12 (Sept/Oct 2011) Jeff Roberts, Insurer sues Twitter imposter who cheers death, mayhem, Reuters (June 9, 2011) Brandjacking on Social Networks, Radio Interview by Damien Carrick, The Law Report, ABC Radio National,
in Melbourne, Australia (March 29, 2011)
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