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. 

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

West Central Tribune
May 28, 2020
Re: Susan Estrich

Susan Estrich wrote an op-ed critiquing the coronavirus response from the Presidential administration and their divisive rhetoric. "We are living with the new normal, and it is frightening the extent to which it depends on a unity of purpose at the very time the president is politicizing this as a red state-blue state issue, threatening to pull the Republican National Convention from North Carolina unless the state promises him a full crowd," she said.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Dan Simon
March, 2020

Dan Simon participated as a discussant on “From the Lab to the Courtroom – Forensic Science Expert Analyses & Lay Perceptions of Evidence,” American Psychology & Law Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Thomas D. Lyon
March, 2020

Thomas Lyon participated as a discussant on "Children and adults’ understanding and use of interview ground rules," and co-authored 13 papers and 1 poster, American Psychology & Law Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Nomi Stolzenberg
March, 2020

Nomi Stolzenberg participated on a panel discussion on "Constitutional Crises in a Historical Perspective," Israel Supreme Court Project Conference on Courts and Constitutions Under Stress, Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY.