Lars S. Smith
Stallings Professor of Law
- E-mail: lars.smith@louisville.edu
- Phone: 502-852-7273
- Fax: 502-852-0862
- Office: 257
Lars S. Smith is the Samuel J. Stallings Professor of Law at the University of Louisville's Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. He will act as director of the University of Louisville's first law clinic during the 2008-09 school year. Smith teaches in the areas of intellectual property, particularly trademark law, as well as in property and commercial law. His scholarship focuses on issues related to trademarks and trade dress, as well the intersection of commercial and intellectual property law. Smith's article Trade Distinctiveness: Solving Scalia's Tertium Quid Trade Dress Conundrum, was selected as one of the leading intellectual property articles by the Intellectual Property Law Review. His recent work has focused on the challenge of applying existing intellectual property legal structures on new technologies. In his article RFID and Other Embedded Technologies: Who Owns the Data Smith looks at the emerging tracking technology of radio frequency identification, and what property rights exist in automatically generated data contained on RFID chips. In a follow up article, RFID in the Supply Chain: Panacea or Pandora's Box?, co-authored with Dr. Brian L. Dos Santos, the Frazier Family Professor of Computer Information Systems, Smith and Dos Santos explore the effect of these current legal rules on the use of radio frequency identification in the product supply chain.
Courses Taught
Business Planning
Business Torts
Creativity and Innovation Clinic
Federal Trademark Registration Practice
Intellectual Property Negotiation
Property I
Property II
Right of Publicity
Secured Transactions
Trademark Law
Publications
Recent publications
RFID in the Supply Chain: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? __ Communications of the ACM __(publication pending) (co-authored with Dr. Brian L. Dos Santos).
Distinctive Designs and Functional Products: Limitations on the Protection of Trade Dress under Trademark Law, in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Praeger, December 2006) (Book chapter).
RFID and Embedded Technology: Who Owns the Data? 22 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L. J.695-757 (2006).
Presentations
Are Dilution Laws Necessary or Beneficial in Developing Nations?
Branding the Land: Trademarks, Geographical Indicators and the Advancement of Third World Development Conference, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL, April 25, 2008
Lecture on Copyright Law and Legality Of Downloading
Course: Children and Media, Dr. Gail Henson, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY April 11, 2008
Lecture on Copyright Law
Course: Portfolio Development in Graphic Design, Professor Leslie Friesen, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, March 27, 2008
How the Internet Helps Preserve Lesser Spoken Languages
Presentation on Cultural Rights in the Internet Age Panel
Law and Society Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July 26, 2007
The Benefits and Costs of Adopting the U.S. Form of Trade Secret Protection
Association of Teachers and Researchers in Intellectual Property Annual Meeting, Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 16, 2007
The Effect of eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. on Obtaining Injunctions in Trademark Cases
Louisville Bar Association Intellectual Property Section, Louisville, KY, June 6, 2007
What if eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. Had Been a Trademark Case?
The 4th Annual Intellectual Property Conference, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI March 31, 2007
RFID and The Supply Chain: Who Owns the Data?
Louisville Bar Association Intellectual PropertySection, Louisville, KY, September 19, 2006