Jeanne Fromer

Because keeping secrets together help people form bonds with each other, maybe the very act of having shared secret information can incentivize innovation. -- @jeannefromer.bsky.social #wipip26

trade secret societies! @jeannefromer.bsky.social #wipip26

the psychology & sociology of secrecy are at the core of what's being protected by TS law but the law hasn't done much grappling with it

www.bu.edu/law/engageme...

I’m excited to be at WIPIP at @bulaw.bsky.social today, where I’ll be talking about “Trade Secret Societies” (and I plan to be posting the paper draft very shortly)

If you're in Boston, please come hear me talk today at Northeastern about influencer law, memes, and copyright with Alex Roberts, Victoria Schwartz, and Stacey Lantagne

Influencer Law - School of Law Join the Center for Law, Information and Creativity for a panel exploring how copyright, trademark, right of publicity and false advertising law apply to the world of influencers—real, fake and everyt...

I will be presenting my recent work on AI Influencers as part of a wonderful panel next week on "Influencer Law" at Northeastern with @lexlanham.bsky.social, @jeannefromer.bsky.social and moderated by @staceylantagne.bsky.social. Would love to see Boston friends
law.northeastern.edu/event/influe...

UCLA Law Review 2026 Symposium - UCLA Law Review

Great symposium today organized by @uclalawreview.bsky.social & Xiyin Tang on Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism, where I'm moderating a panel on antitrust & IP with @marklemley.bsky.social, Xiyin Tang, @madhavisunder.bsky.social, and @rtushnet.bsky.social www.uclalawreview.org/ucla-law-rev...

How NYU Law’s Democracy Project is approaching extremism from 100 lenses - Washington Square News Back in September, the NYU School of Law announced the Democracy Project, a forum focused on combatting extremist politics, and launched its first initiative: an essay series titled “100 ideas in 100 ...

Nice write-up of @nyulaw.bsky.social’s @democracyproject.bsky.social launched by Sam Issacharoff, @rickpildes.bsky.social, and Bob Bauer nyunews.com/news/2026/02...

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Condé Nast is Suing a Tiny Beverly Hills Dog Magazine Over Trademark Infringement It's a "Vogue"-eat-"Dogue" world.

It's a Vogue eat Dogue world indeed! @airmail.news Air Mail story in which I am quoted discussing a trademark case involving these two magazines airmail.news/issues/2026-...

From @scholasticahq.bsky.social. Fess up, who submitted the 216,621-word article?

At sunny Santa Clara for a conference on How It Started, How It’s Going in intellectual property, and speaking on how IP is going and what’s gone right in trademark law under the Lanham Act

It's true! I'm delighted to announce my latest project (with @simonandschuster.bsky.social), "The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader."

In bookstores in May, but preorder yours now (maybe get one for your favorite federal official? It makes a great gift!).

Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) and Machines as the New Oompa-Loompas: Trade Secrecy, the Cloud, Machine Learning, and Automation (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

Loving this fantastic Willy Wonka Lego set I now have in my @nyulaw.bsky.social office to go with the 2 intellectual property articles I’ve written about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

Actually more like 1986, but you get the point 👧

Former circuit judge Michael McConnell and Professor Noah Rosenblum debate originalism The merits and pitfalls of originalist interpretation of the US Constitution were the focus at the November 19 installment of Respectfully Dissent, an NYU Law discussion series that, in an era of less...

Nice writeup (with full video) of a recent @nyulaw.bsky.social Respectfully Dissent session on originalism that I led with Mike McConnell v. @narosenblum.bsky.social www.law.nyu.edu/news/respect...

Finally, we have a paper presenting "An Empirical Study of Artificial Intelligence Patent Litigation" by Amy Semet, showing how poorly these patents are faring, with commentary by Jonathan Ashtor

For our last session, we turn to patents and AI, with "Artificial Inventorship" by Gideon Parchomovsky & Lital Helman proposing that the extent of patent protection ought to correspond to the degree of human inventorship (vs. AI inventorship) in an invention, with commentary by @jnsheff.bsky.social

Next up is a paper by @jnvictor.bsky.social on "Substantial Similarity in the Age of Generative AI" exploring the challenges presented by compilation-like protection for AI-generated works, with commentary by @jtlg.bsky.social

We turn now to a session on IP from authenticity to AI, w/ a paper by Michael Goodyear on "Rethinking Authenticity" breaking down authenticity into 4 subvalues: uniqueness, creatorship, place, & tradition, proposing that IP laws can address only the first 3, w/commentary by @cjsprigman.bsky.social

Now we have a paper by Doni Bloomfield on "How Grantmakers Govern" about the NIH's range of authority over scientific innovation, with commentary by @danielhemel.bsky.social

Next up is a session on patent law, innovation, and institutions, first with a paper by @danielhemel.bsky.social on "Patent as Promise" about credible commitments in patent law that might come through institutions, ideas, and innovations, with commentary by @mburstein.bsky.social

Always the innovator 👏 it was a brilliant presentation and you’ve been on a roll ever since

We've had a great line of student paper presentations at Tri-State over time, including by @tepski.tech, Mala Chatterjee, and Samantha Hedrick

We now have a student paper presentation by @nyulaw.bsky.social JSD student Junhao Chen on "China’s Emerging Jurisdictional Maximalism," particularly through its use of anti-suit injunctions in patent cases.

Next up is a paper by Camilla Hrdy on "Trade Secret Law's On-Sale Bar," on how trade secret law does have something akin to patent law's on-sale bar baked into its law and how courts ought to operationalize that, with commentary by @coxlaw.bsky.social

Our first session is on secrecy, with a paper on "Easy Secrecy in the Eastern District" by @cmorten.bsky.social with commentary by @maggiewittlin.bsky.social on how (too) easy it is to seal documents in patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas, the most popular forum for such litigation

With commentary by @maggiewittlin.bsky.social, Courtney Cox, Michael Burstein, @danielhemel.bsky.social, @cjsprigman.bsky.social, @jtlg.bsky.social, @jnsheff.bsky.social, and Jonathan Ashtor

Featuring new scholarship by Chris Morten, Camilla Hrdy, @danielhemel.bsky.social, Doni Bloomfield, Michael Goodyear, @jnvictor.bsky.social, Lital Helman, Gideon Parchomovsky, Amy Semet, and Junhao Chen