Hi, We're the People listeners. I'm Jackie McDermott, the show's producer.

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments by teleconference,

allowing the public to listen in in real time for the first time in history.

The first case the court heard was

US patent and trademark office versus booking.com which centers on whether

booking.com can trademark its name. Host Jeffrey Rosen was joined by three experts who filed briefs on different sides in this case,

to explain it and to recap the argument.

The National Constitution Center partnered with C-SPAN to broadcast this conversation live following the

argument on Monday. Here's Jeff to get the conversation started.

C-SPAN friends, welcome to the National Constitution Center and C-SPAN's first town hall

discussion of the first live Supreme Court argument in American history.

I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, which is the beautiful

building that you see behind me.

It's located in Philadelphia on Independence Mall,

right across from Independence Hall, where the Constitution was drafted. And like C-SPAN,

the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit with an inspiring mission from Congress.

Our mission is to disseminate information about the Constitution on a nonpartisan basis to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution

among the American people.

And with that in mind, we've embarked today on an exciting educational experiment.

We have convened America's leading scholars who have filed briefs on both sides of the

case that you've just heard, as well as a scholar who filed a brief on behalf of neither

party, to help us understand the oral arguments that we've just heard.

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