LAW 5260: Intellectual Property - 2161

Intellectual Property
Class Term:
Fall Term 2015-2016
Catalog Number:
5260
Class Number:
26652
Class Schedule:
Monday, Wednesday
12:30 pm -
1:45 pm
Room:
LAW 111
Professor(s):

Professor

Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3 (3 Contact, 0 Field)
Priority:
General Enrollment Course
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
Standard Courses

Grading Details

The grade in this course will be based on take-home midterm and final examinations. Both exams will be modified open-book, take-home examinations. Answers must be typewritten and must comply with specified constraints on number of pages, minimum fonts, and margins.

Description

In the Information Age, intellectual property (IP) law has taken on even greater significance. IP law is designed to encourage the production of certain forms of information by granting property rights to the producers, enabling them to appropriate the value of the information they produce. In this course, we survey state intellectual property law (e.g., unfair competition and trade secrets) as well as federal intellectual property law including trademark, patent and copyright. We examine some of the ramifications of recent technological developments on intellectual property law and some of the problems of international protection of intellectual property.

Intellectual Property