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David Stein

@davidbstein.bsky.social
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Law & AI @ Vanderbilt Formerly: - Law & CS @ Northeastern - Cybersecurity Lead @ Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet) - Director of Engineering @ Braze - Product Engineer @ Foursquare - Early Eng @ Dropbox - Robotics Researcher @ MIT

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David Stein @davidbstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
is the Amazon website ok? Does it need a hug or a pep talk?
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Jeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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
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Jeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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....
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Trademark Law's View of the Image: A Computational and Empirical Analysis
Trademark law maintains a remarkably primitive, incoherent, and unexamined approach to images, even as the number and importance of image marks has grown dramat
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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. 🧵
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Generative Misinterpretation
<div> In a series of provocative experiments, a loose group of scholars, lawyers, and judges has endorsed generative interpretation: asking large language mode
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David Stein @davidbstein.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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/...
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