Hello! Welcome to the IP Lasagna episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and

finance news of the week I'm Felix Amalib Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios.

Hello. And Emily, how excited are you about this week's show? I am so excited. It's all coming

back to me. Everything I thought I forgot about IP. I remembered. We have the one and only

Alexandra Roberts, aka Lex Lanham on Twitter. Alex, introduce yourself. Who are you? I am an

intellectual property and trademark law professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

You are everyone's favorite IP expert. You are going to talk to us about so many amazing bits

and pieces of trademarks. We're going to talk about social media. We're going to talk about

rights of publicity. We're going to talk about brands. We're going to talk about counterfeits.

We're going to talk about parodies. We're going to talk about mischief. We're going to have a

slate plus segment about Felix the cat and whether I can use it as my Twitter avatar. It's so much fun.

Honestly, this is the best show about IP law. You will listen to all month if I can guarantee it.

It's all coming up on slate money. The one thing that Emily loves more than anything else on

this show is when I remind everyone that she used to work at IP law and business magazine.

She used to run it, indeed. I was the executive editor. So this is your show, Emily. I'm turning

the reins over to you for this one. So mad at you. Okay. Well, yes. I was on the intellectual

property beat from 2001 to 2006 and then I really dropped off. I was doing the reading preparing

for this episode and I remembered a trademark conference I went to in Toronto and then I was like,

what even was a trademark conference? I couldn't conceive of how that was anything.

That's really my favorite, actually. I can't think of anything more fun than the

trade conference. Oh, yeah. I mean, wow. People go crazy. Those IP lawyers.

You sent us a thing on, you gave us some like reading because you're a good university professor.

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