Margreth Barrett

Emerita Professor of Law

Bio

Professor Margreth Barrett is a graduate of the University of South Florida, B.A. Journalism, English Literature (1973); the University of South Florida, M.A., English Literature (1974); and Duke University 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 Materials (Thomson/West 4th ed: 2010). AMAZON

Intellectual Property (CrunchTime series, Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2009). AMAZON

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

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

Intellectual Property (CrunchTime Series, Aspen Publishers 2006). AMAZON

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

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

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

Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (West Group 2d ed. 2001 & Supp. 2004).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Journal Articles


A Cause of Action for “Passing Off/Associational Marketing”, 1 IP Theory 1 (2010). FULLTEXT

Reconciling Fair Use and Trademark Use, 28 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1 (2010). FULLTEXT SSRN

Trademarks and Digital Technologies: “Use” on the Net, 13 J. Internet L. 1 (May 2010). WL

Finding Trademark Use: The Historical Foundation for Limiting Infringement Liability to Uses “In the Manner of a Mark”, 43 Wake Forest L. Rev. 893 (2008) (reprinted in 2009 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 319 (2009)). FULLTEXT SSRN

Domain Names, Trademarks, and the First Amendment: Searching for Meaningful Boundaries, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 973 (2007) (reprinted in 97 Trademark Rep. 848 (2007)). FULLTEXT SSRN

Internet Trademark Suits and the Demise of “Trademark Use”, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 371 (2006) (reprinted in 39 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 197 (2007)). FULLTEXT

Consolidating the Diffuse Paths to Trade Dress Functionality: Encountering TrafFix on the Way to Sears, 61 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 79 (2004). FULLTEXT

A Fond Farewell to Parallel Imports of Patented Goods: The United States and the Rule of International Exhaustion, 24 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 571 (2002).

The United States’ Doctrine of Exhaustion: Parallel Imports of Patented Goods, 27 N. Ky. L. Rev. 911 (2000) (reprinted in 32 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 231 (2001)). FULLTEXT

Trade Dress Protection for Product Configurations and the Federal Right to Copy, 20 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 471 (1998). FULLTEXT

The “Law of Ideas” Reconsidered, 71 J. Pat. & Trademark Office Soc’y 691 (1989). FULLTEXT

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

The Constitutional Right to Jury Trial: A Historical Exception for Small Monetary Claims, 39 Hastings L.J. 125 (1987). FULLTEXT

The Denial of Eleventh Amendment Immunity to Political Subdivisions of the States: An Unjustified Strain on Federalism, 1979 Duke L.J. 1042 (1979). FULLTEXT

Book Reviews


Book Review, 37 Hastings L.J. 1197 (1986) (reviewing Peter F. Hartz, Merger (1985) & Dorman L. Commons, Tender Offer: The Sneak Attack in Corporate Takeovers (1985)). HEIN WL

Education

  • Duke University School of Law
    J.D.
    1980

  • University of South Florida
    M.A., English Literature
    1974

  • University of South Florida
    B.A. Journalism, English Literature
    1973