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Ramsey, Lisa
Books
- Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions (Cambridge University Press 2026)
Journal Articles
- Raising the Threshold for Trademark Infringement to Protect Free Expression, 72 American University Law Review 1225 (2023) (with Christine Haight Farley)
- Using Failure to Function Doctrine to Protect Free Speech and Competition in Trademark Law, 104 Iowa Law Review Online 70 (2020)
- Free Speech Challenges to Trademark Law After Matal v. Tam, 56 Houston Law Review 401 (2018)
- A Free Speech Right to Trademark Protection, 106 Trademark Reporter 797 (2016)
- Mechanisms for Limiting Trade Mark Rights to Further Competition and Free Speech, 44 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 671 (2013) (with Schovsbo)
- Brandjacking on Social Networks: Trademark Infringement by Impersonation of Markholders, 58 Buffalo Law Review 851 (2010)
- Free Speech and International Obligations to Protect Trademarks, 35 Yale Journal of International Law 405 (2010)
- Increasing First Amendment Scrutiny of Trademark Law, 61 Southern Methodist University Law Review 381 (2008)
- Intellectual Property Rights in Advertising, 12 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 189 (2006)
- Descriptive Trademarks and the First Amendment, 70 Tennessee Law Review 1095 (2003)
- Predicting the Unpredictable Under Rule 11(b)(3): When are Allegations "Likely" to Have Evidentiary Support?, 43 UCLA Law Review 1393 (1996)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Protectable Trademark Subject Matter in Common Law Countries and the Problem with Flexibility, in The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law (Irene Calboli & Jane Ginsburg eds., Cambridge University Press 2020)
- Non-Traditional Trademarks and Inherently Valuable Expression, in The Protection of Non-Traditional Marks: Critical Perspectives (Irene Calboli & Martin Senftleben eds., Oxford University Press 2018)
- Reconciling Trademark Rights and Free Expression Locally and Globally, in International Intellectual Property: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Daniel Gervais ed., Edward Elgar Publishing 2015)
- First Amendment Limitations on Trademark Rights, in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age (Peter Yu ed., Praeger 2006)
Other Print and Electronic Media
- The First Amendment Protects Offensive Trademark Rights, The Regulatory Review (2017)