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Intellectual
Property Law Program: Curriculum
and Practicum |
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Students complete a series of courses that have been designed to
provide both a depth of substantive knowledge and a breadth of experience
with practical skills and IP law practice settings. The goal of the
curriculum is to enable students to enter the profession with a higher
level of readiness to practice while possessing that combination
of theoretical insights and practical perspective that support a
career-long life of self-reflection and learning.
In addition to traditional core courses such as Copyright, Trademarks
and Unfair Competition and Patents, the concentration will offer
a series of upper-level elective courses that reflect the unique
focus of the Earle Mack School of Law on the modern challenges of
the intellectual property world. These classes will include Patent Prosecution,
International IP, Food and Drug Law and various other intellectual
property courses. Several of these courses are taught by leaders
in the profession. In all of the courses, students will be exposed
to law and skills, practice and theory, through a classroom method
that incorporates simulation, drafting exercises and other non-traditional
teaching techniques.
The IP Practicum, offered in the spring quarter each year for students
in their third year, is the capstone course in the IP concentration.
Under the supervision of the instructor who will act as a “senior
partner,” students will be paired up to represent two different
sides of a transaction that will involve significant regulatory,
licensing, ownership and transfer issues of various different IP
assets. The students will advise their clients as to how to maximize
the income streams pertaining to these IP assets as well as how to
navigate the different governmental regulatory regimes which affect
those specific properties. Each client project will be tailored to
fit within the constraints of a classroom exercise but will require
students to engage in “real world” activities such as
client meetings and presentations, legal research, document review
and drafting and negotiation. These activities will be supplemented
with classroom discussion of relevant doctrine, skills and ethical
issues as well as ongoing supervision and coaching by the instructor
and frequent guest practitioners.
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