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Betsy Rosenblatt

Betsy Rosenblatt

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Intellectual Property
1230 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 400, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

    About Betsy Rosenblatt

    Practice Areas
    • Intellectual Property
    Education
    • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999
      Honors: Honors Graduate
    • Williams College
      Honors: Honors and High Honors
    Classes and Seminars
    • At U.C. Davis School of Law: Intellectual Property Law; Trademark Law; Copyright Law; Video Game Law; Civil Procedure.
    • At University of Maastricht: U.S. Copyright Law
    • At Whittier Law School: Patent Law; Copyright Law; Trademark Law; Video Game Law; Recent Issues in Intellectual Property Law; Advanced Patent Law; The Legal Mind; Civil Procedure I & II.
    • At USC Law School: Trademark Law.
    • At UCLA Law School: Advanced Copyright Law; Advanced Patent Law.
    • “Copyright Law Year in Review 2019: What’s New, What’s Happening, What’s On The Way,” Los Angeles Copyright Society, Jan. 13, 2020.
    • “Trademarks and Expressive Works” (panel), BYU Copyright & Trademark Symposium, Oct. 11, 2019.
    • “IP and the Question of Who Creates,” Intellectual Property Scholars’ Conference (plenary speaker), DePaul University Law School, August 9, 2019.
    • “Comic Book Law School 303: Super Lawyers Unite!” (panel), San Diego Comic Con, July 20, 2019.
    • “Professor vs. Practitioner Debate: ‘Fan or Felon’ or, More Accurately, ‘Fan or Infringer?’” International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Boston, May 19, 2019.
    • “2018 Copyright Year in Review: New Cases and Future Predictions in an Ever-Changing Legal Landscape,” Beverly Hills Bar Association, February 21, 2019.
    • “Copyright’s One-Way Appropriation Ratchet,” U.C. Davis School of Law, February 20, 2019.
    • “Copyright’s Excess—Intersections With Social Justice,” Symposium on Copyright’s Excess: Money and Music in the U.S. Recording Industry, Texas A&M University School of Law, February 15, 2019.
    • “(Re)Verbing Intellectual Property Law,” Intellectual Property Scholars’ Conference, University of California, Berkeley Law School, August 9-11, 2018.
    • “Westworld: Further Beyond Frontier Law” (panel), San Diego Comic Con, July 19, 2018.
    • “Fair Use: Comparing the Approach under Trademark and Copyright Law” (panel), International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, May 19, 2018.
    • “User-Generated Disrupters and Transformative Uses” (panel), Geaux Create: Disruption, Continuity, and the Role of Law in Creativity, Tulane Law School, April 6, 2018.
    • “Protecting a Brand” (panel), Pepperdine Law School Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & The Law Startups & The Law Symposium, March 28, 2018.
    • “DMCA Section 1201 Rulemakings: Thoughts Provoked, Lessons Learned,” DMCA at 20 Symposium, Texas A&M Law School, March 23, 2018.
    • “Exploring the Role of Fair Use in Fan Culture” (panel), University of Michigan Law School, March 16, 2018.
    • “2017 Copyright Year in Review: New Cases and Future Predictions in an Ever-Changing Legal Landscape,” Beverly Hills Bar Association, Feb. 22, 2018.
    • “Can Copyright Ever Live Forever?” State Bar of California 42nd IP Institute, November 2, 2017.
    • “Fair Use as Resistance,” Symposium, The Discursive Turn in Copyright, U.C. Irvine, Oct. 27, 2017.
    • “Copyright Law Update,” HIPLA/University of Houston Law Center 33rd Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, October 7, 2017.
    • “Westworld: Beyond Frontier Law,” (Panel) San Diego Comic Con, July 22, 2017.
    • “Comic Book Law School 303: ‘A Helping Hand’,” (Panel) San Diego Comic Con, July 22, 2017.
    • “Copyrighting Fashion After Varsity Brands,” (Panel) NYU Annual Survey of American Law Symposium, NYU Law School, Feb. 24, 2017.
    • “2016 Copyright Year in Review: New Cases and Future Predictions in an Ever-Changing Legal Landscape,” Beverly Hills Bar Association, Feb. 23, 2017.
    • “Uncertainty Aversion and Intellectual Property,” WIPIP (Works in Progress in Intellectual Property) Conference, Boston University Law School, Feb. 10, 2017.
    • “Comic Book Law School 303: New Revelations,” (Panel) San Diego Comic Con, July 23, 2016.
    • “How It Works: Understanding Copyright Law in the New Creative Economy” (Panel) [Panel and travel supported by Re:Create Coalition], Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2016.
    • "Progressive Teaching: Infusing Difficult Conversations in Intellectual Property Classes," MOSAIC IP Conference, Marquette Law School, March 19, 2016.
    • "Copyright and Creators: 2026" (On the Future of Copyright Law), South by Southwest Interactive Festival, Austin, TX, March 11, 2016.
    • "2015 Copyright Year in Review: New Cases and Future Predictions in an Ever-Changing Legal Landscape," Beverly Hills Bar Association, February 26, 2016.
    • "Belonging as Intellectual Creation," Works in Progress in Intellectual Property Law conference, University of Washington Law School, February 20, 2016; UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, UCLA Law School, November 8, 2015; Intellectual Property Scholars' Conference, DePaul University Law School, August 7, 2015.
    • "Legal Uncertainty and Eternal Life," How Long?: Copyright Duration in the 21st Century, University of Tulsa Law School, Oct. 30, 2015.
    • "Fandom is My Fandom: or, We All Live in a Coffee Shop AU," San Diego Comic Con, July 9, 2015.
    • "Intellectual Property, Creativity, and a Sense of Belonging," Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 29, 2015; WIPIP (Works in Progress in Intellectual Property) Conference, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Washington, D.C., Feb. 7, 2015; David & Ann Brennan IP Scholars Forum, Akron, Ohio, September 19, 2014; ," IP Scholars' Conference, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2014.
    • "Transformative Works: Young Women's Voices on Fandom and Fair Use," at Fair Use in the Digital Age: The Ongoing Influence of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose's "Transformative Use Test" (aka Campbell at 21), University of Washington School of Law, April 17-18, 2015; IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, American University Washington College of Law, February 27, 2015.
    • "2014 Copyright Law Year in Review: New Trends and Predictions for the Future," Beverly Hills Bar Association, February 19, 2015.
    • "Creativity Without Law: Parallels and Future Research," Creativity Without Law, Case Western Reserve Law School, November 7, 2014.
    • "Fans, Love, and the Law," San Diego Comic Con, July 26, 2014.
    • "2013 Copyright Law Year in Review: New Trends and Predictions for the Future," Beverly Hills Bar Association, March 28, 2014.
    • "The Adventure of the Shrinking Public Domain," Whittier Law School Distinguished Speaker and Colloquium Series, March 18, 2014; WIPIP (Works in Progress in Intellectual Property) Conference, Santa Clara Law School, February 7, 2014; Intellectual Property Scholars' Conference, Cardozo Law School, August 8, 2013.
    • "Digital Media in the Age of the Cloud," UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, December 3, 2013.
    • "Gamer or Game Developer? The Law of Video Game Transformation," California State Bar 2013 IP in Entertainment & Media Conference, June 27, 2013.
    • "Complex Litigation Involving Multiple Parties," moderator, 2013 Federal Circuit Bar Association/Federal Bar Association Advanced Complex Litigation Series, Whittier Law School, April 30, 2013.
    • "Fear and Loathing: Shame, Shaming, and Intellectual Property," Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium, Chicago-Kent Law School, April 9, 2013; WIPIP (Works in Progress in Intellectual Property) Conference, Seton Hall Law School, February 23, 2013; Intellectual Property Scholars' Conference, Stanford Law School, August 9, 2012.
    • "2012 Copyright Year in Review: New Trends and Predictions for the Future," Beverly Hills Bar Association, February 26, 2013.
    • "Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Year in Review," Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association's Washington in the West 2013, January 29, 2013.
    • Response to "Confusion Isn't Everything: Limiting Doctrines in Trademark Law" by Mark McKenna and Bill McGeveran, Southern California IP Professors' and UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, November 4, 2012.
    • "Sherlock Holmes Adaptation and Intellectual Property Law," Sherlock Holmes: Behind the Canonical Screen, UCLA School of Film and Television, September 1, 2012.
    • "Copyright Law Year in Review," Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association Spring Seminar, June 12, 2012.
    • "Patent Ethics: A Retrospective of Recent Patent Cases," Patent Litigation Briefing, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell, Irvine, CA, January 25, 2012.
    • "Past is Prologue: How Copyright Developments in 2011 Will Shape the Issues We Face in 2012," March 26, 2012.
    • "Copyright and Media Law Year in Review," Los Angeles Copyright Society, December 14, 2011.
    • "IP's Negative Space: Beyond the Utilitarian," Southern California Junior Law Faculty Workshop, October 22, 2011; Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University Law School, August 11, 2011.
    • "A Theory of IP's Negative Space," Whittier Law School Intellectual Property Colloquium, November 4, 2011.
    • "Toward a Unified Theory of IP's Negative Space", Southern California Junior Law Faculty Workshop, October 16, 2010.
    • "Trademark Law for Engineers: The Two-Hour Crash Course", University of Southern California, April 29, 2010.
    • Response to "Intellectual Property as a Law of Organization" by Jonathan Barnett, Southern California IP Professors' and UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, November 8, 2009.
    • "Intersections between science and law regarding ethical standards of behavior," Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University Seminar guest lecturer, December 4, 2007.

    Qualifications

    Other Affiliations
    • Organization for Transformative Works Legal Committee (Member, 2010-present; Legal Chair, 2012-present)
    • Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Advisory Chair for Outreach and Education (2010-present)
    • Los Angeles Copyright Society (Member, 2004-present; Member, Board of Trustees, 2006-2008)
    • Lambda Legal Los Angeles Leadership Committee (Member, 2005-2014)
    • Admitted to practice in California State Courts, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
    Past Positions
    • Irell & Manella LLP
    • Whittier Law School
    • UCLA Law School

    Fees

    • Offers Free Initial Consultation

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    Phone:
    (310) 694-5833
    Website:
    https://www.kbslaw.com
    Address:
    1230 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 400, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
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