Fixing Informational Asymmetry Through Trademark Search

Amanda Levendowski, Trademarks as Surveillance Transparency, 36 Berkeley Tech. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2021), available at SSRN.

Jessica Silbey

I call this paper a “Levendowski special.” It follows the signature format of much of Professor Levendowski’s prior work which, as in the latest article, recruits a legal tool typically aimed at one set of problems for the purpose of cleverly addressing a different set of problems. Her past articles harnessed copyright law to “fix artificial intelligence’s implicit bias” (2018) and to […]