Background
Swann, Jerre Bailey was born on May 12, 1939 in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Son of Julius Seth and Alma Nell (McCartney) Swann.
Swann, Jerre Bailey was born on May 12, 1939 in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Son of Julius Seth and Alma Nell (McCartney) Swann.
Williams College (Bachelor of Arts, 1961). University of Saint Andrews, Saint Andrews, Scotland. Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, 1965).
Worked at Kilpatrick Stockton Limited Liability Partnership (Atlanta, Georgia) specializing in Intellectual Property Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1966, New New York 1968, Georgia.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Author: "Bringing Home the Nonresident Infringer.
How Long or Short Should the Jurisdictional Arm Be?" 62 Trademark Republican 267 (1972); "The Validity of Dual Functioning Trademarks: Genericism Tested by Consumer Understanding Rather Than by Consumer Use," 69 Trademark Republican
357 (1979). "The Economic Approach to Genericism: A Reply to Folsom and Teply," 70 Trademark Republican
243 (1980); "Bald Protectionism or a Balanced Review: A Reply to Lunsford and Cohrs," 33 Mercer Law Review 1205, (1982). "The Design of Restaurant InteriorsA New Approach to Aesthetic Functionality," 76 Trademark Republican
408 (1986). "Anti-Monopoly: An Exercise in Economic Futility," 78 Trademark Republican
65 (1988). Company-Author: "The Thirty-Third Year of Administration of the Lanham Trademarks Acting of 1946," 70 Trademark Republican 493 (1980); "An Analysis of the Ives Case: A Training and Mobility of Researchers Panel," 72 Trademark Republican
118 (1982). "Surveying Genericness: A Critique of Folsom and Teply," 78 Trademark Republican
179 (1988); USTA"s Amicus Brief in Two Pesos, Incorporated. v. Taco Cabana international, Incorporated.
82 The Trademark Reporter 440 (1992). "Dilution, an Idea Whose Time Has Gone.
Brand Equity as Protectable Property, The New/Old Paradigm," 1 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 219 (1994).
Domestic Articles Editor, 1986-1988 and Editor-in-Chief, 1988-1990, The Trademark Reporter. Director, United States Trademark Association, 1989-1991. Law Clerk for Honorary Dudley B. Bonsal, United States.
District Judge, Southern District of New York, 1965-1967.
Member: State Bar of Georgia.
Member American Bar Association, Georgia Bar Association, International Trademark Association (board directors 1989-1991, editor-in-chief Trademark Reporter 1988-1990), Cherokee Town and Country Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Jane Goodwillie, June 26, 1965 (divorced January 1977). Children: Jerre B. Junior, Eliza W. Married Cynthia Pangia, September 17, 1977.