Barton Beebe
(updated 2024-12-16)
I am the John M.
Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at NYU School of Law,
where I'm also a Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law
& Policy and a Co-Director of the Competition, Innovation, and
Information Law LLM Program.
I'm the
author of Trademark Law: An Open-Access Casebook,
a free law school textbook.
In 2020, I received a Podell Distinguished Teaching Award from NYU School of Law.
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barton.beebe@nyu.edu
Books
Trademark
Law: An Open-Access Casebook
(2014-2023)
Charting Limitations on Trademark Rights (Oxford, 2023) (with Haochen Sun)
The
Luxury
Economy and Intellectual Property: Critical Reflections (Oxford,
2015) (with Haochen Sun & Madhavi Sunder)
Trademark Law, Unfair Competition, and
Business Torts (Aspen, 2011) (with Thomas Cotter, Mark Lemley, Peter
Mennell & Robert Merges)
Articles
Automating Abercrombie: Machine-Learning Trademark Distinctiveness, 21 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 826 (2024) (with Shivam Adarsh, Elliott Ash, Stefan Bechtold & Jeanne Fromer) (.pdf)
Consumer Uncertainty in Trademark
Law: An Experimental Investigation, 72 Emory Law Journal (2023) (with
Roy Germano, Christopher Jon Sprigman & Joel H. Steckel) (.pdf)
The Future of Trademarks in a Global
Multilingual Economy: Evidence and Lessons from the European Union, 112
Trademark Reporter 902 (2022) (with Jeanne C. Fromer) (.pdf)
An Empirical Study of U.S.
Copyright Fair Use Opinions Updated, 1978-2019, 10 New York University
Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law 1 (2020) (.pdf)
Fake Trademark Specimens: An Empirical Study, 121 Columbia Law Review Forum 217 (2020) (with Jeanne Fromer) (.pdf)
Immoral or Scandalous Marks: An
Empirical Analysis, 8 New York University Journal of Intellectual Property
& Entertainment Law 169 (2019) (with Jeanne Fromer) (.pdf)
Testing for Trademark Dilution in
Court and the Lab, 86 University of Chicago Law Review 611 (2019) (with
Roy Germano, Christopher Jon Sprigman, & Joel Steckel) (.pdf)
(reprinted in abridged form as The Science of Proving Trademark Dilution,
109 Trademark Reporter 955 (2019) (pdf))
Are We Running Out of Trademarks?
An Empirical Study of Trademark Depletion and Congestion, 131 Harvard
Law Review 945 (2018) (.pdf) (with Jeanne Fromer)
The Scope of Strong Marks: Should Trademark Law Protect the Strong
More than the Weak? 92 New York University Law Review 1339 (2017)
(with Scott Hemphill) (.pdf)
Bleistein, the Problem of
Aesthetic Progress, and the Making of American Copyright Law, 117
Columbia Law Review 319 (2017) (.pdf)
Intellectual Property Law and the Sumptuary Code, 123 Harvard Law
Review 809 (2010) (.pdf)
An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright
Fair Use Opinions, 1978-2005, 156 Pennsylvania Law Review 549 (2008)
(.pdf) (data set in .xls)
An Empirical Study of the
Multifactor Tests for Trademark Infringement, 95 California Law Review
1581 (2006) (.pdf) (data set and coding form in .xls)
Search and Persuasion in Trademark
Law, 103 Michigan Law Review 2020 (2005) (.pdf)
The Semiotic Analysis of Trademark
Law, 51 UCLA Law Review 621 (2004) (.pdf)
Chapters
The German Misappropriation Origins of Trademark Antidilution Doctrine: A Translation of the 1924 Odol
Opinion of the Landgericht Elberfeld, Transition and Coherence in
Intellectual Property Law: Essays in Honour of Annette Kur (Niklas
Bruun, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Marianne Levin & Ansgar Ohly eds., 2021)
(.pdf)
The Problems of Trademark Depletion and Congestion: Some
Possible Reforms, in Research Handbook on Trademark Law Reform 17
(Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing,
2021) (with Jeanne C. Fromer)
Empirical Studies of Trademark Law, Research Handbook on the Economics
of Intellectual Property Law: Volume II. Analytical Methods (Peter
Menell and David Schwartz, eds., 2019)(.pdf)
Design Protection Law, The Oxford
Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (Rochelle Dreyfuss & Justine
Pilla eds., 2017) (.pdf)
The Suppressed Misappropriation Origins of Trademark Antidilution Law:
the Landgericht Elberfeld's Odol Opinion and Frank Schechter's The Rational Basis
of Trademark Protection,
Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP
(Rochelle Dreyfuss & Jane Ginsburg eds, 2013) (.pdf)
Canada and United States of
America, Study on Misappropriation of Signs 69 (Committee on
Development and Intellectual Property, World Intellectual Property
Organization, March 14, 2012, CHIP/9/INF/5)
The Semiotic Account of Trademark
Doctrine and Trademark Culture, Trademark Law and Theory: A
Handbook of Contemporary Research 42 (Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Mark
D. Janis eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2008) (adapted from The
Semiotic Analysis of Trademark Law, 51 UCLA Law Review 621) (.pdf)
Invited
Lectures and Symposium Contributions
Less as More in Intellectual Property Law, 102 Boston University Law Review Online 61 (2022)
(.pdf)
Intellectual Property Law and
Post-Scarcity Society, [2019] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 377
(.pdf)
What Trademark Law is Learning
from the Right of Publicity, 42 Columbia Journal of Law & the
Arts 389 (2019) (.pdf)
Star Athletica and the
Problem of Panaestheticism, 9 UC Irvine Law Review 275 (2019) (.pdf)
Shanzhai, Sumptuary Law, and
Intellectual Property Law in Contemporary China, 47 U.C. Davis Law
Review 849 (2014) (.pdf)
Fair Use and Legal Futurism, 24
Law & Literature 10 (2013) (.pdf)
Tiffany and Rosetta
Stone: Intermediary
Liability in U.S. Trade Mark Law, 41 CIPA Journal 192 (2012)
Is the Trademark Office a Rubber
Stamp?: Trademark Registration Rates at the PTO, 1981-2010, 48
Houston Law Review 752 (2012) (.pdf)
Does Judicial Ideology Affect
Copyright Fair Use Outcomes?: Evidence From the Fair Use Case Law,
31 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 101 (2008) (.pdf)
The Continuing Debacle of U.S.
Antidilution Law: Evidence from One Year of Trademark Dilution
Revision Act Case Law, 24 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology
Law Journal 449 (2008) (.pdf) (data set in .dta (Stata))
A Defense of the New Federal
Trademark Antidilution Law, 17 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media
& Entertainment Law Journal 1143 (2006) (.pdf)
Shorter
Works
Clearing Up Some Confusion About Dilution: A Reply to Hal Poret, 112 Trademark Reporter 684 (2022) (.pdf)
Practitioner's
Summary of Results Reported in An Empirical Study of U.S. Fair Use
Opinions, 1978-2005, Practising Law Institute, Advanced Seminar
on Copyright Law 2008, at 11, PLI Order No. 14793 (2008) (.pdf)
Reply to Alan Audi, A Semiotics of
Cultural Property Argument, 14 International Journal of Cultural
Property 156 (2007)
Parental Initiative in the Age of
Signal Bleed, 109 Yale Law Journal 627 (1999) (.pdf)
Law's Empire and the Final
Frontier: Legalizing the Future in the Early Corpus Juris Spatialis,
108 Yale Law Journal 1737 (1999) (.pdf)
Amicus
Briefs
Brief
for Professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer as Amici Curiae
Supporting Respondent, Iancu v. Brunetti, 139 S. Ct. 2294 (2019)
(cited in Iancu v. Brunetti, 139 S.Ct 2294, 2230 (2019)) (.pdf)
Congressional
Testimony
Statement
of Professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer, New York
University
School of Law, Before the United States Senate, Committee
on the
Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Hearing
on "Fraudulent Trademarks: How They Undermine the Trademark System and
Harm
American Consumers and Businesses," December 3, 2019 (link)
Statement
of Professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer, New York University
School of Law, Before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee
on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and
the Internet, Hearing on "Counterfeits and Cluttering: Emerging Threats to the
Integrity of the Trademark System and the Impact on American
Consumers and Businesses," July 18, 2019 (.pdf)
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