Christopher C. Larkin

Christopher C. Larkin was appointed an Administrative Trademark Judge on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2016 after 36 years in private practice in New York and Los Angeles, in which he focused on trademark litigation before federal courts and the TTAB, domestic and foreign trademark prosecution, and intellectual property licensing, counseling, and transactional matters.

While in private practice, he was recognized by his peers and in-house counsel worldwide for inclusion in multiple editions of the Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners and the World Trademark Review 1000, and was designated as a “Trademark Experts’ Expert” in surveys of leading US practitioners reported in World Trademark Review. He held several leadership positions with the International Trademark Association, including service as an editor of The Trademark Reporter and on INTA’s Amicus Brief Committee, for which he authored INTA’s amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 514 U.S. 159 (1995), in which the Court agreed with INTA’s position that single colors are eligible for trademark protection.

Larkin received his BA from Stanford University in 1977 and his JD from Columbia Law School in 1980. He has taught Internet Law, Trademark Law, and Trademark Law in Practice at USC Gould School of Law. 

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CNN
July 10, 2019
Re: Edward McCaffery

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Michael Simkovic
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"Measuring Regulation," American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY.

Dan Simon
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"Thin Empirics: Comment on Allen & Pardo’s Relative Plausibility and Its Critics," International Journal of Evidence and Proof 23 (2019): 82.

Jonathan Barnett
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"Antitrust Overreach: Undoing Cooperative Standardization in the Digital Economy," American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY.