These data suggest that for a meaningful portion of 2(d) refusals, the PTO granted registrations for several marks that are in the same class as the cited mark & are more similar to that mark in the same way as the refused mark. Revealing how inconsistently PTO is assessing similarity of image marks

Jeanne Fromer@jeannefromer.bsky.social · last mo.

Barton Beebe, Stein, and I have posted a draft of a new paper "Trademark Law's View of the Image: A Computational and Empirical Analysis" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Barton Beebe, Stein, and I have posted a draft of a new paper "Trademark Law's View of the Image: A Computational and Empirical Analysis" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New from me with Ben Sobel and @davidbstein.bsky.social: _Generative Interpretation_, forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We argue against using LLMs as part of the judicial process. They're not ready yet, and it's a long road to get there. 🧵

Bluebooking's tedious. I'm making IndigoCite—a Zotero for lawyers. - Automatic parsing of SSRN, Heinonline, WestLaw, Lexis - Hand-coded Indigobook formatter - Works with existing Zotero/Juris-M accounts MacOS test builds come out this June. Pull requests encouraged. github.com/indigo-cite/...