Trade mark scholars: this IS for you!
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This Kat is very pleased that the INTA holds its own academic programme, and he is delighted that a considerable number of academics now attend. In earlier times he campaigned for INTA to provide concessionary registration rates for academics, which they have done, and he has been impressed at the quality of the scholarship symposium, at which teachers and researchers in the field of trade mark law can share their ideas and their perspectives with practitioners and trade mark owners.Call For Papers: Fourth Annual INTA Trademark Scholarship SymposiumThe International Trademark Association (“INTA”) is pleased to host the Fourth Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium during the 135th INTA Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The Symposium will take place on Monday, May 6, 2013as part of INTA’s Academic Day and is an opportunity for trademark scholars from around the world (including part-time and full-time professors, graduate and post-graduate students) to participate in small group discussions of scholarly works-in-progress. Each selected scholar will present their project in a workshop setting, receive comments, and engage in a dialogue with other academic scholars and accomplished trademark practitioners.Please send an abstract (approximately 300 words) describing a current trademark or unfair competition scholarship project to Signe H. Naeve at SNaeve@uw.edu by February 1, 2013. The Task Force will then select a maximum of 8 projects to be presented at the Symposium, grouped into related topics or themes. Selections will be announced by February 15, 2013. For each selected project, a working draft of the paper (10-20 pages) 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 discussing trademark blogging, a reception and other networking opportunities. Additional expenses are the speaker’s 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, Madrid Spain
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This Kat hopes that his academic colleagues from afar will be able to attend in order to present papers based on their own final thoughts or on their work in progress, and urges them to do so if they can. Money is, however, an issue that cannot be diplomatically avoided by any organisation, particularly in times of financial slowdown. This Kat is also convinced that trade mark scholars from some of the world's poorest and least-resourced countries, where IP is little understood and even less appreciated, are likely both to gain more benefit and subsequently to impart it than are their colleagues from countries where trade mark law is almost a commonplace.
Wouldn't it be grand if some of the INTA's wealthiest members, both corporate and in private practice, and some of the local attendees from Dallas and its surrounds, were to offer to "adopt" a deserving overseas scholar who wanted to attend the INTA Symposium but couldn't afford to do so, providing one or more of the following: travel and accommodation costs, a daily allowance to cover the bare necessities of survival, a friendly face and a little human company?