Oral Argument

Episode 87: Content of the Mark

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Joined in the studio by IP scholar Mark McKenna, yielding a two to one ratio of IP to non-IP people at headquarters, we discuss: the dilapidated state of headquarters (0:00), computers in the classroom and the first installment of Joe’s Quandary (6:11), topics we do not yet but one day will discuss and the topic for our upcoming live show (15:25), the speech implications of the revocation of trademark registration as with the Washington football team (20:12), and Knitting with Joe and one other bit of feedback (1:20:15).

This show’s links:

  • Mark McKenna’s faculty profile and writing
  • The Clear Sky Chart forecast for Athens, Georgia, containing explanations of transparency and seeing
  • Dan Rockmore, The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom
  • Clay Shirky, Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away
  • Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
  • Anne Curzan, Why I’m Asking You Not to Use Laptops
  • Rebecca Schuman, In Defense of Laptops in the Classroom
  • Oral Argument 71: Rolex Tube Socks (guest Mark McKenna)
  • Mark McKenna, Trademark Year in Review
  • In re Simon Shiao Tam
  • Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse
  • Amicus: The Case of the Missing Constitutional Violation
  • Christine Haight Farley and Robert Tsai, The First Amendment and the Redskins’ Trademark, Part II: A Shot Across the Bow from the Federal Circuit (also containing a link to part one)
  • Christine Haight Farley, Registering Offense: The Prohibition of Slurs as Trademarks
  • Lilit Voskanyan, The Trademark Principal Register as a Nonpublic Forum
  • Theodore Davis, Registration of Scandalous, Immoral, and Disparaging Matter Under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act: Can One Man's Vulgarity Be Another's Registered Trademark?
  • The National Speed Trap Exchange

    • Special Guest: Mark McKenna.

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