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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)
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