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University of Puget Sound, J.D., summa cum laude, 1991
Seattle University, M.A., English, 1969
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Washington, 1992

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12.31.20	Ninth Circuit Rejects Fair Use Defense in Seuss/Star Trek “Mash-Up” Case; Netflix Settles Sherlock Holmes Case
12.28.20	New York Takes the Stage with New Publicity Right Law
09.16.20	What They Do for a Living: The Right of Publicity in Video Games and Movies
07.01.20	Lights, Camera...Legal Action?
10.23.19	Animated IP: A Series of Answers to Your Questions from Rose City Comic Con
07.06.19	What Everyone Can Learn From the $300 Million Deal That Taylor Swift Claims ‘Stripped Me of My Life’s Work
06.25.19	Supreme Court Finds “Scandalous” Trademark Rule Unconstitutional
01.08.19	Supreme Court Denies Cert in de Havilland Case
01.07.19	Supreme Court Grants Cert in Brunetti Appeal
11.12.18	Washington Court Allows California Cannabis Business to Sue for Trademark Infringement
11.08.18	Federal Circuit’s Converse Ruling Provides Useful Secondary Meaning Guidelines
11.06.18	Supreme Court Asked to Review De Havilland Case
10.01.18	U. S. Supreme Court Will Decide What It Means to “Register” a Copyright
03.02.16	Two New Right of Publicity Decisions Heighten First Amendment Tension
01.27.16	Government Concedes that Recent Federal Circuit Ruling on Registration of “Disparaging” Trademarks Applies to “Scandalous and Immoral” Marks As Well
12.23.15	Naughty or Nice, “Offensive” Trademarks Are Entitled to Registration: In re Tam
01.26.15	Latest Football Video Game Decision Prompts Concerns Over Constitutional Analysis in Right of Publicity Cases
06.14.12	ICANN Reveal Day was … well, in some cases, pretty revealing!
12.01.11	Practical Correctness
12.01.10	The Physics of Pronunciation and Distressed Lawyers, Bar News, Washington State Bar Association (Dec. 2010)
07.01.10	Words Misspoken, Words Misheard, Bar News, Washington State Bar Association (July 2010)
03.01.10	If the Shoe Fits: Lindsay Lohan’s Right of Publicity, IPWatchdog.com (Mar. 2010)
02.01.10	Talkin’ Baseball and Fryin’ Eggs in Synecdoche, USA, Bar News, Washington State Bar Association (Feb. 2010)
10.01.09	Attack of the Killer Pleonasm, Bar News, Washington State Bar Association (Oct. 2009)
07.01.09	State Regulation of Franchising; the Washington Experience Revisited
04.29.09	The Right and Wrong of Rescuecom: Plain Talk about Keyword Search Advertising
03.24.09	Use Is the New Protectability, Dawn Donuts Are Still Hot This Season, and Other Trademark Issues
03.01.09	Peeves Beget Peeves, Bar News, Washington State Bar Association (Mar. 2009)
03.01.09	Use Is the New Protectability, Landslide, American Bar Association IP Section (Mar. 2009) (reprinted in GPSolo, Best of ABA Sections Magazine (Sept. 2009))
07.01.06	Author and Video Production Director, Another Bad Day At The Office: Wage & Hour, The Bad Days Keep On Coming (July 2006)
07.12.05	Recent Court Rulings Have Intellectual Property Impact
06.04.04	Of Special Interest to Our Hospitality Clients Doing Business in California: Business Must Comply with State's New Privacy Law
06.01.03	Best Practices for a Web Site Privacy Policy
02.28.03	Protecting Wineries from Disability Law Claims
08.01.02	Rene Rey Chocolates Delivers Old World Perfection in Confection