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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 trademark law, 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. In spring 2011, Professor Ramsey was a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne where she did
research on Australian trademark and media law. 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 2013, the prestigious
European peer-reviewed journal International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law published her article
"Mechanisms
for Limiting Trade Mark Rights to Further Competition and Free Speech" (coauthored with University of Copenhagen Professor
Jens Schovsbo), which proposes certain legislative reforms of domestic trademark laws and compares how Europe and
the United States balance trademark rights against other public interests. Professor Ramsey's other recent publications include the law review articles "Increasing
First Amendment Scrutiny of Trademark Law", 61 Southern
Methodist University Law Review 381 (2008); "Intellectual Property
Rights in Advertising", 12 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 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 Tennessee Law Review 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, Trademark Litigation, 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: Trademark Protection and Territoriality Challenges in
a Global Economy edited by Irene Calboli and Edward Lee, 5 The IP Law Book Review 1 (2014) 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
Trademarking
Everything? Why Brands Should Care About Limits on Trademark Rights, Works-In-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium,
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandira, VA (Feb. 6, 2015) Free Speech, Competition,
and the Structure of Trademark Law - Presentation, Fourteenth Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law (Aug. 8,
2014)
- Presentation,
Third International Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, DePaul University College of Law (May 1, 2014)
Commentator, UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, UCLA School
of Law, Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 10, 2013) (invited commentator on paper Flexible Copyright: Can EU Author’s
Right Accommodate Fair Use? by Bernt Hugenholtz and Martin Senftleben) Reconciling Trademark Rights and
Free Speech Locally and Globally - Junior Faculty Workshop, University of San Diego School of Law (Feb. 3, 2014)
- Presentation, Thirteenth Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University (Aug. 9, 2013)
- Presentation, 32nd Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching
and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), University of Oxford, U.K. (June 25, 2013)
- Presentation, Second International Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, University of San Diego School
of Law (April 19, 2013)
Presentation, Trademark Defenses in the Internet Domain
Name Space, Conference on International Aspects of Intellectual Property Law, Arizona State University (Nov. 30, 2012)
An Impersonation Theory of Trademark Law - Presentation, Intellectual
Property Scholars Roundtable on Intellectual Property and the Constitution, University of New Hampshire School of
Law (Sept. 29, 2012)
- Presentation, Twelfth Intellectual
Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School (Aug. 9, 2012)
- 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 School of Law (Feb.
20, 2012)
Mechanisms
for Limiting Trade Mark Rights to Further Competition and Free Speech (with coauthor Jens Schovsbo) - Presentation, Trademark Works-in-Progress
Colloquium, American University Washington College of Law (Sept. 7, 2012)
- Presentation, First International Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Marquette University
Law School (April 27, 2012)
Presentation,
Trademark Year in Review, Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association Spring Seminar, Torrey Pines, CA (June
10, 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 Desert, 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 Trevor Hughes and William M. Welch, Feds fight over who owns national park trademark, USA Today (Jan. 8, 2015) Radio Interview by Scott Shafter, Controversy Erupts Over Yosemite Naming Rights, Forum KQED Radio (Dec. 31, 2014) Lydia DePillis, The color purple: Not just for Cadbury anymore, Washington Post Wonkblog (Oct. 4, 2013) 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) Radio Interview by Damien Carrick, Brandjacking on Social Networks, The Law Report, ABC Radio National,
Melbourne, Australia (March 29, 2011)
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