Content of the Mark

About this Episode

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