EXPERIENCE

University of San Diego School of Law
Associate Professor of Law, 2006 to present
Assistant Professor of Law, 2004 to 2006
Courses: Intellectual Property Survey, International Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Seminar: Current Issues in Intellectual Property

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

PUBLICATIONS 

Increasing First Amendment Scrutiny of Trademark Law, 61 SMU L. Rev. 381 (2008), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1273944

First Amendment Limitations on Trademark Rights, in 3 Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age 147 (Peter K. Yu ed., Praeger 2007), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=968721
 
Intellectual Property Rights in Advertising, 12 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 189 (2006), available at http://www.mttlr.org/voltwelve/ramsey.pdf  

Descriptive Trademarks and the First Amendment, 70 Tenn. L. Rev. 1095 (2003), reprinted in 36 Intellectual Property Law Review 271 (Karen B. Tripp ed., West 2004) (judging this article to be one of the best intellectual property law articles of 2003), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=728572

Predicting the Unpredictable under Rule 11(b)(3): When are Allegations “Likely” to Have Evidentiary Support? 43 UCLA L. Rev. 1393 (1996)

PRESENTATIONS 

Free Speech and International Obligations to Protect Trademarks 

• 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)

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)

What If There Were No First Amendment Distinction Between Commercial and Noncommercial Speech: Would Trademark Law Be Constitutional?

• Presentation, 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)