The International Trademark Association (INTA) is pleased to host the Ninth Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium during the 140th INTA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. The annual meeting is scheduled to take place May 19-23, 2018, and the Symposium itself will be held on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. The symposium is an opportunity for trademark academics and scholarship-minded practitioners from around the world to participate in small group discussions of scholarly works-in-progress.
Deadline: Please send an abstract (approximately 300 words) describing a current trademark, unfair competition, right of publicity or related rights scholarship project to Peter Karol at pkarol[@]nesl.edu and Tara Aaron at tara[@]aaronsanderslaw.com by October 31, 2017. The subcommittee will then select a maximum of 8 projects to be presented at the Symposium, grouped into related topics or themes. Selections will be announced by January 30, 2018. For each selected project, a working draft of the paper (10-20 pages) must be submitted by March 15, 2018. There is no publication obligation. Papers should be written in the English language.
