LAW - 758 Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law: Clinic Fieldwork

(4 hrs.)

Prepares participants to be effective practitioners through direct experience with cases drawn from the full range of intellectual property specialties, including copyright, patent, and trademark. Students learn essential lawyering skills and acquire a critical understanding of the values and value conflicts that shape the development of intellectual property law and policy. Students gain experience in client counseling, transactional lawyering, and litigation, as well as administrative and legislative advocacy, as they represent individual creators and consumers, small businesses and communities of rights holders, and not-for-profit institutions and associations. Prerequisites or corequisites: Clinic Seminar (LAW-756), Evidence (LAW-633) and one intellectual property course.