Intellectual Property & Technology Law Certificate Program
Welcome to the website for Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. This site collects information about and links to relevant curricular opportunities at Pitt Law, including the Certificate Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, extracurricular moot courts, writing opportunities, and fellowships. The site also includes information about intellectual property and technology law organizations and developments in and around Pittsburgh.
"Intellectual property law" encompasses patents, copyrights, and trademarks. "Technology law" deals with legal aspects of computers and the Internet and biotechnology. These two related fields are among the most exciting and challenging areas of contemporary law practice. Pitt Law has a distinguished tradition of scholarship and teaching in these disciplines. We hope that this site provides the information you need to learn about how Pitt is building on that tradition.
April 7, 2011: Congratulations to Pitt Law 3L Christian Ehret, who has received the 2011 Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association's Student Leadership Award for students at Pitt Law. In addition to attaining an excellent academic record in IP Certificate courses, Christian has been extensively involved in IP-related activities at Pitt Law and in the Pittsburgh community (e.g., working with the Sprout Fund and externing at Steeltown Entertainment). Christian also received a Samuelson/Glushko IP fellowship, wrote about IP and technology matters for Jurist, and represented Pitt Law in the Cardozo/BMI copyright and entertainment law moot court competition for both the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 academic years.
March 12, 2011: Congratulations to Pitt Law 3Ls Christian Ehret and Victoria Summerfield for their outstanding performance in the national 2011 Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition, held March 10-13, 2011 in New York City. For the second year in a row, Victoria and Christian were among the final eight teams in the competition, in which a total of 28 U.S. law schools participated.
April 2010: Congratulations to Pitt Law 3L Rupam Bhar for winning the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association's 2010 Writing Award for his article, "The KSR Transformation of the Automaton into a Super Human." The judging criteria included (a) pertinence of the submission to contemporary intellectual property issues; (b) original and creative thought; and (c) scholarship. Additional details about the PIPLA Writing Award can be found at http://www.piplaonline.org/main.asp?page={174A60C9-C5A3-4327-B84E-8889E95B8FB2}.
March 8, 2010: Congratulations to Pitt Law 2Ls Victoria Summerfield and Christian Ehret for their outstanding performance in the national 2010 Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition, held March 3-7, 2010 in New York City. Victoria and Christian were among the final eight teams in the competition. They earned the 4th-highest scores in the preliminary rounds among the 28 participating law schools from all areas of the United States, and won their Octofinal Round before being defeated in the Quarterfinals.
March 20, 2009: Pitt Law students Andrew Graham and Jason Weisser received the Best Appellant Brief award in the North East regional round of the 2009 Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
