INTA Daily News

The INTA Annual Meeting kicked off last night with a stellar Gala Dinner which had more than 500 attendees.

The sell-out dinner was the first INTA Gala, and was held in the Manchester Grand Hyatt ballroom.

The dinner was a recognition of Brand Names Education Foundation (BNEF) award winners and INTA volunteers. Guests enjoyed a cocktail reception, followed by a four-course menu featuring a harvest salad and roasted salmon and filet mignon combination plate. Post-dinner entertainment was provided by Art Deco & the New Era. 

During the dinner, BNEF Chair David Gooder, of Jack Daniel’s Properties, announced prizes for students and practitioners. 

The student Ladas Memorial Award was pre-sented to Anna Popov. The award recognizes excellence in research and writing and in the trademark field. Popov’s paper was titled “Watering Down Steele v Bulova Watch Co to Reach E-Commerce Overseas: Analyzing the Lanham Act’s Extraterritorial Reach Under International Law.” 

The professional winner of the Ladas Memorial Award was Jane Ginsburg, who wrote a paper on “The Right to Claim Authorship in US Copyright and Trademark Law.” 

Announcing the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition, Gooder said: “A record 62 teams from 50 schools participated this year in the Lefkowitz Competition. Regional competitions were met with high praise from the partici-pants.” The regional winners were Boston College Law School, Marquette University School of Law, University of Alabama School of Law and Santa Clara University School of Law. 

The four regional winners competed in a national competition in Washington DC, where they argued in front of judges and practition-ers. Marquette University Law School was the winning team and also received the second place brief award. Second-placed team was University of Alabama School of Law, which also received the second place oralist award. Boston College Law School won Best National Oralist Team and the Dolores K Hanna Best Brief Award was won by William Mitchell College of Law. 

Anne Gundelfinger, INTA President, thanked the BNEF Board of Governors and Dolores Hanna, saying: “The work that the Board and Dolores have done on BNEF pro-grams has been invaluable, and I assure you that now that these programs have moved to INTA, they will continue at that same high level.” She added that INTA hopes to expand the programs outside the US. 

Gundelfinger also led thanks for the volun-teers who worked on the BNEF competitions as well as INTA’s other programs and publications. 

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