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Founded in 2013, the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic works at the intersection of law and technology. Read more about the clinic’s influence in  @StanfordLawMag

In June 2023, Julia Laurence, JD ’24 (BA ’17), and Victoria Fang, JD/MS ’24, attended U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, a much-watched case implicating trademark law, parody, and free speech. Laurence and Fang, part of the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic, submitted an amicus brief on behalf of 30 trademark law professors arguing that a ruling in favor of trademark holder Jack Daniel’s could stifle free speech rights. At issue was whether VIP Products’ “Bad Spaniels” parody dog chew toy was speech protected by the First Amendment or trademark infringement.

The Court ruled unanimously in favor of the whiskey maker’s trademark rights—the opposite of what the clinic students argued—but attending the oral arguments provided the opportunity of a lifetime and a chance to hear the justices discuss arguments put forth in their brief and those of other amici. This was one of several trips clinic founding director Phillip Malone has led to the Supreme Court with students to observe arguments in cases where they submitted amicus briefs.

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