Intellectual Property (JD Certificate)
Admission Requirements and Course of Study1
There are no formalized application requirements for this certificate, though submission of the Certificate Participation form should be filed with the Registrar’s Office upon commencement of certificate course work.
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Course substitutions may be approved by the Certificate Program Director and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law.
Requirements
Fifteen (15) credits are required to complete the certificate: including the introductory Intellectual Property course plus at least one regime class or, alternatively, two regime classes. Students will also be required to take an intellectual property seminar. Students may include in the fifteen (15) credit hours one class from a list of adjacent field courses. Also required, as part of the fifteen (15) credits is one of the following:
- A supervised writing (which meets the Law School's upper-level writing requirement) project under the direction of a member of the Intellectual Property faculty.
- A supervised field placement in intellectual property, with a significant writing component.
- Participation in the Intellectual Property Clinic.
| Course | Title | Credits |
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| Intellectual Property Courses | ||
| LAW 7304 | Art and Artifacts Law | 3 |
| LAW 7294 | Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Governance | 3 |
| LAW 7877 | Clinic: Intellectual Property | 5 |
| LAW 7829 | Comparative Intellectual Property Law | 3 |
| LAW 7734 | Copyright 1 | 3 |
| LAW 7705 | Cyberlaw | 3 |
| LAW 7313 | Data Privacy Law | 3 |
| LAW 7870 | Entertainment Law | 3 |
| LAW 7842 | Food Law and Policy | 3 |
| LAW 7552 | Information Governance | 3 |
| LAW 7715 | Intellectual Property 2 | 3 |
| LAW 7835 | Intellectual Property in the European Union | 3 |
| LAW 7889 | Legal Regulation of Art and Public Culture | 3 |
| LAW 7273 | Music Law | 2 |
| LAW 7716 | Patent Law 1 | 3 |
| LAW 7735 | Patent Law, Adv: Practice and Procedure | 3 |
| LAW 7753 | Patent Litigation | 3 |
| LAW 7274 | Quantam Computing and Intellectual Property Law | 2 |
| LAW 7939 | Trademark Law 1 | 3 |
| LAW 7375 | Trade Secrets and Innovation | 3 |
| Courses in Adjacent Fields | ||
| LAW 7600 | Administrative Law | 3 |
| LAW 7601 | Negotiation and Mediation | 3 |
| LAW 7739 | Antitrust and Trade Regulation | 3 |
| LAW 7605 | Business Organizations | 3 |
| LAW 7632 | Conflict of Laws | 3 |
| LAW 7858 | Contemporary Legal Theory/Philosophy | 3 |
| LAW 7636 | Corporate Finance | 3 |
| LAW 7659 | Federal Courts | 3 |
| LAW 7980 | Federal and State Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practice Laws | 3 |
| LAW 7894 | Law and Economics | 3 |
| LAW 7654 | Law and Institutions of the European Union, Introduction to | 3 |
| LAW 7907 | State Legislative Process | 3 |
| LAW 7911 | Media and the Law | 3 |
| LAW 7947 | Right to Privacy | 3 |
| LAW 7926 | Sports and the Law | 3 |
| LAW 7730 | Legislation and Statutory Interpretation | 2 |
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Regime Courses
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Introductory Intellectual Property Course
Learning Objectives
- Identify and formulate the substantive law, legal theories, and policy issues central to intellectual property law.
- Establish conceptual and strategic links across a wide array of intellectual property regimes.
- Apply the relevant domestic and international intellectual property legal rules to the protection and regulation of knowledge with special attention to the variety of global jurisdictions and the introduction of new technologies.
- Demonstrate the professional skills that are generally regarded as necessary to effectively practice as attorneys in domestic US and international institutions that address intellectual property rights.