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Jeremy Sheff
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Law professor. New Yorker. Co-author & admin, Open Source Property. Research and teaching focuses on IP, Property, and Legal Theory.
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Below the line of the 1st page of Professor Dan Burk's last article, just published posthumously by the UC Irvine Law Review.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"Attacks on academia are fundamentally about remaking the labor practices that define higher education."

Deepa Das Acevedo, author of The War on Tenure (out now), in Time Magazine

https://cup.org/4hahkid

#HigherEd #AcademicSky #PoliSci 🗺️ 🗃️
The Real History of Tenure
If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.
time.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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They could have done something like this in the Trump immunity case and given a chance for the special counsel to take Trump's federal election subversion charges to trial.

Expediting cases is a choice
NEW: the Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump‘s appeal in the tariffs cases on a highly expedited basis. Oral argument will be during the first week of November.
September 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Looking forward to talking about the patent law side of the current disruptions in the federal executive branch at this event this evening. www.connerinn.org/event-6240328
Hon. William C. Conner Inn of Court - Discretionary Denial and the Court-PTAB Standoff
www.connerinn.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Thrilled that my article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System" is now out in the California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social
Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System — California Law Review
Amazon’s dominance as a platform is widely documented. But one aspect of that dominance has not received sufficient attention—the Amazon Brand Registry’s sweeping influence on firm behavior, particula...
www.californialawreview.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Donna Adelson's trial for Dan Markel's murder begins.
#JusticeforDan
August 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Just a reminder of my favorite idea for a law student note: Pick an important Supreme Court case from 5-10 years ago, and see how lower courts are interpreting it. It's helpful for practitioners and courts, and something law students can research and present effectively.
August 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Maybe 5 people out there will appreciate this, but I am trying to parse a huge database dump of a foreign government's trademark registration data. I've just discovered that one of the trademarks is recorded as "<<<(Cf. xkcd.com/327/)
Exploits of a Mom
xkcd.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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What's going on in the world of dupes, & how do these rapid-fire copies interact with the law?

Fascinating @theverge.com piece with great quotes & analysis from two top experts: @lexlanham.bsky.social & @design-law.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

#dupes #academia #fashion
How dupes turned online shopping upside down
When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?
www.theverge.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Coming to America is a strange experience for someone with a complex racial, religious, ethnic and national background. These many identities get subsumed under a racial or national identity that is then hyphenated with America.
July 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Of possible interest to law students studying intellectual property. www.uspto.gov/jobs/become-...
Become a trademark examining attorney
Learn more about the USPTO trademark examining position, what a typical day looks like, and why you should work at America’s Innovation Agency.
www.uspto.gov
June 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Closing public spaces rather than sharing them is a classic segregationist move
June 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Last month there were allegations that some of my students may have used generative AI on my final exam. The incident led me to give some serious thought to how we are dealing with these tools in the professional education context. Here’s what I wrote to my students: jeremysheff.com/2025/06/02/g...
Generative AI in the Law School Classroom – Jeremy Sheff
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June 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Sundar Pichai does not know how to live.
Pichai is showing how Gmail composed an email to his friend offering vacation advice he didn’t have time to assemble himself. This whole oft-cited example of using AI for friendly personal correspondence still seems off to me. I’d rather get a brief note I knew was really from Sundar!
May 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This is what the current federal administration is trying to destroy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is what the current federal administration is trying to destroy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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1. A must-read thread. I'll highlight three more problems with this opinion, which is the only case to prevent people from using a class action to challenge US government renditions to El Salvador. I often write about complex litigation, with a focus on class actions involving government bodies.
May 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
May 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A thoroughly depressing article about AI, cheating, and learning
archive.ph/6kq0P
archive.ph
May 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM