ATLANTA (March 14) – LAWFUEL – Law & Legal News Network – Emory University School of Law will host the Kilpatrick Stockton Distinguished Lecture in IP: “Removing the Consumer From the Trademark Equation,” Wednesday, March 21. The event will be held at Emory Law, 1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, and will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by the lecture from 7 – 8:30 p.m.
The featured speaker will be Professor Sara K. Stadler (’90) from Emory Law. Professor Stadler will reveal how the cult of the consumer has changed trademark law for the worse, and she will propose a solution that removes the consumer from the trademark equation (almost) entirely.
Sara K. Stadler is a graduate of Emory University where she was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar in Emory College, graduating summa cum laude. She obtained her law degree from the University of Virginia. After clerking for Judge Murray M. Schwartz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Professor Stadler worked as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. Thereafter, she practiced copyright and trademark law at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu in New York and Kilpatrick Stockton in Atlanta. Before coming to Emory, Professor Stadler was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where her teaching and research focused on intellectual property law. She received the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Cincinnati. Professor Stadler teaches property and intellectual property law.
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