Source: http://www.umt.edu/law/faculty/directory/default.php?ID=4090
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 08:32:45+00:00

Document:
Professor Smith teaches courses on intellectual property law, property law, and art and cultural property law. Her scholarship focuses copyright and trademark law, IP theory, art law, and cultural property and heritage law. In 2017, she was awarded the Boone Faculty Scholarship Award for her scholarship. Outside of the Law School, Prof. Smith serves on the Board of Directors for the Missoula Art Museum (MAM) and is an appointed member of the Public Art Committee for the City of Missoula. Professor Smith co-created and co-organizes the annual IP Day in Montana, a full-day conference featuring speakers, panels, and workshops on intellectual property issues.
Prior to joining the faculty at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law, Professor Smith taught at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as a fellow, and practiced as an intellectual property attorney in Chicago with the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. While in practice, Professor Smith represented multinational technology, fashion, and entertainment and media corporations on intellectual property issues and disputes. Her representative published decisions include Kinbook LLC v. Microsoft Corp., 866 F.Supp.2d 453 (E.D.Pa. 2012) (aff'd 2013 WL 116516 (3d Cir. 2013) (summary judgment in trademark infringement case); James Braddock v. Angelina Jolie, 103 U.S.P.Q.2d 1344 (N.D.Ill. 2012) (copyright case involving the movie In the Land of Blood and Honey); PODS Enterprises, Inc. v. ABF Freight System, Inc., 100 U.S.P.Q.2d 1708 (M.D.Fla. 2011) (trademark case involving PODS); Facebook Inc. v. Various Inc., 99 U.S.P.Q.2d 1300 (N.D.Cal. 2011) (trademark case involving FACEBOOK); Arcadia Group Brands Ltd. v. Studio Moderna SA, 99 U.S.P.Q.2d 1134 (T.T.A.B. January 6, 2011) (trademark case involving TOPSHOP); Penthouse Digital Media Productions, Inc. v. Cloudstreet Inc., 98 U.S.P.Q.2d 1496 (T.T.A.B. 2010) (immoral/scandalous trademark case); Roxbury Entertainment v. Penthouse Media Group, Inc., 669 F.Supp.2d 1170 (C.D.Cal. 2009) (trademark infringement case involving ROUTE 66 and the First Amendment); Roxbury Entertainment v. Penthouse Media Group, Inc., 91 U.S.P.Q.2d 1173 (C.D.Cal. 2009); Bausch & Lomb Incorporated v. Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, 87 U.S.P.Q.2d 1526 (T.T.A.B. May 28, 2008).
MSc. in Law, Anthropology and Society, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Professor Smith is a member of the Illinois Bar and Colorado Bar, and has been admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Third Circuit, and Ninth Circuit.

References: v. 
 v. 
 v. 
 v. 
 v. 
 v. 
 v. 
 v. 
 v.