The International Trademark Association (INTA) hosts the Fifth Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium during the 136th INTA Annual Meeting in Hong Kong. The Symposium will take place on Monday, May 12, 2014, as part of INTAs Academic Day and is an opportunity for trademark scholars from around the world to present a complete, or near complete, work of trademark scholarship to practitioners and academics. This year we are only selecting 1-4 papers, which will be presented with a practitioner and an academic commentator, rather than in the traditional workshop setting. The abstract deadline was Feb. 15, 2014, but we’re including the call for papers below, fyi.
Please send an abstract (approximately 300 words) describing a current trademark or unfair competition scholarship project to Co-Chairs Signe H. Naeve at SNaeve@uw.edu and Jeremy Sheff at sheffj@stjohns.edu by February 15, 2014. The Task Force will then select a maximum of 4 papers to be presented at the Symposium. Selections will be announced by March 1, 2014. For each selected project, a near complete draft of the paper must be submitted by April 1, 2013. There is no publication obligation.
Participants will receive complimentary enrollment in the Academic Day program, including an all-professor panel exploring boundaries of trademark law, a trademark professor luncheon offering perspectives from in-house counsel, a reception and other networking opportunities. Airfare and accommodations are the speakers responsibility. For INTA membership and Annual Meeting registration information, please contact Carin Diep-Dixon at cdiep@inta.org.
The Symposium is organized by the INTA Professor Task Force:
Barton Beebe, New York University Law School
David C. Berry, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Megan M. Carpenter, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law
Mark Janis, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Susan Barbieri Montgomery, Northeastern University School of Law & College of Business Administration
Signe H. Naeve, University of Washington School of Law
Antonio Selas, Law School of Universidad Carlos III
Jeremy Sheff, St. Johns University School of Law
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