General Course Descriptions for Terms: patent
751 - Patent Law
Survey of the law of industrial property, including the law of patents and trade secrets.
753 - Intro to Intellectual Property
Survey of the laws of patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks. Discussion of relationship of these laws to the laws of property, trade regulation, and privacy. Exploration of competing or complementary policy rationales for each intellectual property area.
854 - Clinical Program: Law & Entrepreneurship (L&E)
The student attorneys in the Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic (“L&E Clinic”) act as business and corporate counsel to more than 200 clients per year. Participation requires thinking like a lawyer and acting like an entrepreneur. Students work on legal needs including business formation, capital structure, angel and venture-backed securities, and employment and founders' contracts. Students interested in intellectual property issues will file trademark and patent applications, perform patentability and freedom-to-operate analyses, and write proprietary and open-source licenses for technology clients. The L&E Clinic operates similarly to a private practice law firm. Participants manage their own client load, bill time, manage and prepare documents, and report to supervising attorneys, other students and outside partners.