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Bio

Professor Margreth Barrett is a graduate of the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of South Florida, B.A. Journalism, English Literature (1973); the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of South Florida, M.A., English Literature (1974); and Duke ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law (1980). She joined UC Law SF in 1984, after practicing law for three years with Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, in San Francisco. While in law school, Professor Barrett served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Duke Law Journal, and held Duke Law School’s Hardt Cup moot court championship. She completed her legal education by serving as a law clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After serving as UC Law SF’ only Intellectual Property specialist for many years, she was delighted to welcome new colleagues in the field, and to work with them to build the College’s Intellectual Property concentration.

Selected Scholarship

Books

Intellectual Property: Cases and MaterialsÌý(Thomson/West 4th ed: 2010).Ìý

Intellectual PropertyÌý(CrunchTime series, Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2009).Ìý

Intellectual PropertyÌý(Emanuel Law Outlines Series, Aspen Law & Business 2d ed. 2008).Ìý

Teacher’s Manual for Cases and Materials in Intellectual PropertyÌý(West Group 3d ed. 2007).

Intellectual PropertyÌý(CrunchTime Series, Aspen Publishers 2006).Ìý

Intellectual Property: Cases and MaterialsÌý(Thomson/West 3d ed. 2006 & Supp. 2009).Ìý

Intellectual PropertyÌý(Emanuel Law Outlines Series, Aspen Law & Business 2004).

Teacher’s Manual for Cases and Materials in Intellectual PropertyÌý(West Group 2d ed. 2002).

Ìý(West Group 2d ed. 2001 & Supp. 2004).

Intellectual PropertyÌý(The Professor Series, Aspen Law & Business 3d ed. 2000).

Ìý(The Professor Series, Emanuel 2d ed. 1997).

Teacher’s Manual for Cases and Materials in Intellectual PropertyÌý(West Pub. Co. 1996).

Intellectual PropertyÌý(Smith’s Review Series, Emanuel 2d ed. 1995).

Intellectual Property: Cases and MaterialsÌý(West Pub. Co. 1995 & Supp. 2000).

Intellectual PropertyÌý(Smith’s Review Series, Emanuel 1991).

Journal Articles

A Cause of Action for “Passing Off/Associational Marketing”, 1ÌýIP TheoryÌý1 (2010).Ìý

Reconciling Fair Use and Trademark Use, 28ÌýCardozo Arts & Ent. L.J.Ìý1 (2010).ÌýÌý

Trademarks and Digital Technologies: “Use” on the Net, 13ÌýJ. Internet L.Ìý1 (May 2010).Ìý

Finding Trademark Use: The Historical Foundation for Limiting Infringement Liability to Uses “In the Manner of a Mark”, 43ÌýWake Forest L. Rev.Ìý893 (2008) (reprinted inÌý2009ÌýIntell. Prop. L. Rev.Ìý319 (2009)).ÌýÌý

Domain Names, Trademarks, and the First Amendment: Searching for Meaningful Boundaries, 39ÌýConn. L. Rev.Ìý973 (2007) (reprinted inÌý97ÌýTrademark Rep.Ìý848 (2007)).ÌýÌý

Internet Trademark Suits and the Demise of “Trademark Use”, 39ÌýU.C. Davis L. Rev.Ìý371 (2006) (reprinted inÌý39ÌýIntell. Prop. L. Rev.Ìý197 (2007)).Ìý

Consolidating the Diffuse Paths to Trade Dress Functionality: EncounteringÌýTrafFixÌýon the Way toÌýSears, 61ÌýWash. & Lee L. Rev.Ìý79 (2004).Ìý

A Fond Farewell to Parallel Imports of Patented Goods: The United States and the Rule of International Exhaustion, 24ÌýEur. Intell. Prop. Rev.Ìý571 (2002).

The United States’ Doctrine of Exhaustion: Parallel Imports of Patented Goods, 27ÌýN. Ky. L. Rev.Ìý911 (2000) (reprinted inÌý32ÌýIntell. Prop. L. Rev.Ìý231 (2001)).Ìý

Trade Dress Protection for Product Configurations and the Federal Right to Copy, 20ÌýHastings Comm. & Ent. L.J.Ìý471 (1998).Ìý

The “Law of Ideas” Reconsidered, 71ÌýJ. Pat. & Trademark Office Soc’yÌý691 (1989).Ìý

Some Reflections on the Relationship Between the Law of Ideas and Trade Secrets, 1ÌýAm. & World Intell. Prop. Rep.Ìý1 (1988).

The Constitutional Right to Jury Trial: A Historical Exception for Small Monetary Claims, 39ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý125 (1987).Ìý

The Denial of Eleventh Amendment Immunity to Political Subdivisions of the States: An Unjustified Strain on Federalism, 1979ÌýDuke L.J.Ìý1042 (1979).Ìý

Book Reviews

Book Review, 37ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý1197 (1986) (reviewingÌýPeter F. Hartz, Merger (1985) & Dorman L. Commons, Tender Offer: The Sneak Attack in Corporate Takeovers (1985)).ÌýÌý

Education

• Duke ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law
  J.D. 1980

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of South Florida
  M.A., English Literature 1974

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of South Florida
  B.A. Journalism, English Literature 1973