David Stein @davidbstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026is the Amazon website ok? Does it need a hug or a pep talk? 000
Reposted by David SteinJeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026These 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 012
Reposted by David SteinJeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Barton 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....papers.ssrn.comTrademark Law's View of the Image: A Computational and Empirical AnalysisTrademark law maintains a remarkably primitive, incoherent, and unexamined approach to images, even as the number and importance of image marks has grown dramat 2124
Reposted by David SteinJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025New 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. 🧵papers.ssrn.comGenerative Misinterpretation<div> In a series of provocative experiments, a loose group of scholars, lawyers, and judges has endorsed generative interpretation: asking large language mode 22311
David Stein @davidbstein.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Bluebooking'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/... 030